Re: [Ltib] webcam-tools - LTIB

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Granz,

I'm not aware of any, but it's possible.  Good luck with the port.

Regards, Stuart

Franz TRIERWEILER wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> Yes, the best way to know is probably to try! In order not to have to
> readapt the Logitech source code and Makefiles each time there is a new
> version, using cmake is probably the best way.
> 
> Are you aware of existing packages in LTIB which use cmake? In addition
> to this, this project is also using gengetopt as a parser generator.
> 
> Well, I am going to try to configure cmake today. I will keep you informed.
> 
> Franz
> 
> 2010/6/1 Stuart Hughes <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> 
>     Hi Franz,
> 
>     That's difficult to answer without actually trying it.  My instinct
>     would be that it would be better to get cmake installed on your host and
>     try to have that work within the LTIB build environment.  In the LTIB
>     build environment gcc is the cross compiler etc, so maybe it would not
>     be too bad.
> 
>     Regards, Stuart
> 
>     Franz TRIERWEILER wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Logitech is maintaining libs named "webcam-tools". These tools consist
>     > of two projects:
>     > - libwebcam
>     > - uvcdynctrl
>     >
>     > They add more user control on Logitech webcam devices by using the uvc
>     > driver already available as a kernel option in LTIB.
>     >
>     > I would like to make a package of it for LTIB. But these projects both
>     > use cmake as a makefile generator tool.
>     >
>     > Before diving for at least 2 days in the exercise, I wonder whether
>     > using cmake for a LTIB package is the right way of doing (it is
>     required
>     > to change the cmake input file with the right cross compiler
>     options and
>     > so on and make sure that several tools - at least cmake - are
>     installed
>     > on the host platform). Should not I try to take the c and h files
>     out of
>     > the existing project and generate my own makefile with the right
>     options
>     > in it?
>     >
>     > Franz
>     >
>     >
>     >
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