libvisca2

Synopsis

Driver library for controlling VISCA-compliant cameras via RS232.

Author(s): - Damien Douxchamps, Mikael Rosbacke, Joerg Desch, Alexander Klaeser

Maintainer: Ralf Kaestner ralf.kaestner@gmail.com

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Operating system(s): Debian-based Linux

Package PPA: ppa:ethz-asl/drivers

Description

This project provides a driver library and basic command-line utilities for controlling VISCA-compliant cameras via RS232. It has been forked from libvisca to integrate the support for additional camera models.

Installation

Installing from packages (recommended for Ubuntu LTS users)

The maintainers of this project provide binary packages for the latest Ubuntu LTS releases and commonly used system architectures. To install these packages, you may follow these instructions:

• Add the project PPA to your APT sources by issuing

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethz-asl/drivers
  

  on the command line

• To re-synchronize your package index files, run

  sudo apt-get update
  

• Install all project packages through

  sudo apt-get install libvisca2*
  

  or selected packages using your favorite package management tool

Building from source

To build from source, this project requires the CMake build system with an open-source macro extension called ReMake.

Preparing the build system

If you already have installed ReMake on your build system, you may skip this step. Otherwise, before attempting to build this project the traditional CMake way, you must install ReMake following these instructions.

Installing build dependencies

This project does not have any build dependencies other than the standard libraries.

Building with CMake

Once ReMake is available on your build system, you may attempt to build this project the CMake way. Assuming that you have cloned the project sources into PROJECT_DIR, a typical out-of-source build might look like this:

• Create a build directory using

  mkdir -p PROJECT_DIR/build
  

• Switch into the build directoy by

  cd PROJECT_DIR/build
  

• In the build directory, run

  cmake PROJECT_DIR
  

  to configure the build

• If you want to inspect or modify the build configuration, issue

  ccmake PROJECT_DIR
  

• Build the project using

  make
  

• If you intend to install the project, call

  make packages_install
  

  (from packages on Debian-based Linux only) or

  make install
  

API documentation

This project generates its API documentation from source. To access it, you may either inspect the build directory tree after the project has been built using make or install the documentation package through

sudo apt-get install libvisca2-doc

Feature requests and bug reports

If you would like to propose a feature for this project, please consider contributing or send a feature request to the project authors. Bugs may be reported through the project's issue page.