From: Antonio Ospite Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:35:05 +0000 (+0200) Subject: HACKING.asciidoc: add info about getting and building libam7xxx X-Git-Tag: v0.1.3~31 X-Git-Url: https://git.ao2.it/libam7xxx.git/commitdiff_plain/944aa0cf862aa4cf6573c5259a19be6144c27514 HACKING.asciidoc: add info about getting and building libam7xxx Some Ubuntu user asked for a step by step guide. --- diff --git a/HACKING.asciidoc b/HACKING.asciidoc index ed2a46b..ff5c62b 100644 --- a/HACKING.asciidoc +++ b/HACKING.asciidoc @@ -5,6 +5,31 @@ libam7xxx uses the linux kernel coding style: http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle +=== Getting and compiling libam7xxx + +libam7xxx depends on 'libusb-1.0' and optionally on 'libav' or 'ffmpeg' for +its example programs, the build system used is 'cmake'. + +On a Debian based system, the dependencies can be installed with this command: + + $ sudo aptitude install cmake \ + libusb-1.0-0-dev \ + libavformat-dev \ + libavcodec-dev \ + libavdevice-dev \ + libswscale-dev + +The library and the example programs can be compiled following these steps: + + $ git clone git://git.ao2.it/libam7xxx.git + $ cd libam7xxx + $ mkdir build + $ cd build + $ cmake ../ + $ make + +After that the example programs can be found in the +bin/+ subdirectory. + === Debug builds The suggested way to hack on the project is: