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authorKieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>2019-08-14 10:50:02 +0100
committerKieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>2019-08-16 08:51:28 +0100
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readme: Provide build requirements
Provide an initial list of build dependancies for Debian based systems. Other distributions will be added separately. Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
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cd build
ninja
ninja install
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+Dependencies
+------------
+
+The following Debian/Ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
+Other distributions may have differing package names:
+
+A C++ toolchain: [required]
+ Either {g++, clang}
+
+for libcamera: [required]
+ meson ninja-build
+
+for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
+ pkg-config libudev-dev
+
+for qcam: [optional]
+ qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5
+
+for documentation: [optional]
+ python3-sphinx doxygen