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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The installation procedure should be quite simple: step 1). In this case, you will need to have the following software installed: autoconf - automake + automake (ver. >= 1.5) libtool (ver. >= 1.4) 1) ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc @@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ The installation procedure should be quite simple: The following software components are optional, and will improve the libraries' and/or command-line client's functionality if present: - libusb -- Universal Serial Bus camera support + libusb (ver. >= 0.1.5) -- Universal Serial Bus camera support gettext (ver. >= 0.10.35) -- internationalization using shared library cdk (ver. >= 4.9.10) -- camera configuration dialogs aalib -- picture preview jpeglib -- JPEG picture preview + gtk-doc -- documentation built in doc/api/ 2) make install @@ -54,3 +55,79 @@ The installation procedure should be quite simple: If you're running a DEB based system (e.g. Debian GNU/Linux), you can build .deb packages and install these. The packages will be located in FIXME. + +gphoto2 has been successfully used on many system. Some systems where it +has been reported to successfully compile are listed below. Not all, or even +any, camera libraries have been tested on these systems, so there may be +endian other other issues that prevent some camera libraries from working. +Please report any changes to this list to the gphoto2 developer mailing +list. As of this writing, USB support is only available on Linux and +FreeBSD as those are the only systems on which libusb is available. + +i386: + Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 + Red Hat Linux 7.1 + Red Hat Linux 4.2 + TurboLinux 6.5 + Slackware Linux 8.0 + FreeBSD 4.3 + Try the following to configure the optional libraries: + env CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \ + LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/lib" ./configure --disable-included-nls + +Alpha: + OpenBSD 3.0 + NetBSD 1.5.1 + +PowerPC: + Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 + +Sparc: + Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 + Solaris 8 (gcc) + Configure with this command: + ./configure --without-usb + and use GNU make to build (gmake). + +StrongARM: + Intimate/Debian iPAQ GNU/Linux (native gcc) + Linux (cross-compiled gcc) + + +The following systems have some problems compiling, but could be made to work +with some effort. Many linking problems should be resolved with an +newer libtool (newer than version 1.4.2): + +PowerPC: + Apple Darwin (OS X) + Need dlcompat from <URL:http://fink.sourceforge.net> + Configure with this command: + env CFLAGS="-I/path/to/dlcompat -no-cpp-precomp" \ + LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/dlcompat" ./configure --disable-nls + +Itanium: + Red Hat 7.1 (gcc) + Need better libtool support. + Red Hat 7.1 (Intel ecc) + There are two bugs in this compiler tickled by gphoto2 that prevent + full compilation, but are fairly simple to overcome. + Red Hat 7.1 (sgicc) + Need better libtool support. + +Alpha: + Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 + Need better libtool support. + Tru64 5.1A + Configure with this command: + CFLAGS='-D__STDC_VERSION__=0' ./configure --disable-nls + Some build problems related to make (might work with GNU make). + +Sparc: + Solaris 8 (cc) + Sun's cc doesn't support #warning or # or ## macro features, which + occur several times in the code. + + +Thanks go to SourceForge for their compile farm, and Compaq for their +TestDrive program which allowed gphoto2 to be tested on many of these +systems. |