Re: call for Canon EOS / PowerShot testers

After running
./configure --prefix=/usr
The output states
Please also check that PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains
    ${libdir}/pkgconfig
before compiling any libgphoto2 frontend.
But I'm not sure what to set that variable to, where on my system should
*/pkgconfig be?

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 12:52 PM Joey Seal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the info, I am familiar with basic git but don't have much
> experience building from source. That said I wont have access to that
> machine or camera for a few days. I'll give it a try when I do.
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 09:54 Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you are not familar with working with GIT, this is a bit tricky
>> perhaps,
>> and please do not spend too much time on it.
>>
>> To proceed make sure you have libusb 1 development headers + libs
>> installed, and
>> also automake, autoconf, libtool, and make.
>>
>> Then
>>         git clone https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2.git
>>
>>         cd libgphoto2
>>         autoreconf -i -f
>>         ./configure --prefix=/usr
>>
>>                 ( check if there were errors, and also if USB is enabled)
>>
>>         make
>>         sudo make install
>>
>> Now "gphoto2 --version" should report libgphoto2 2.5.30.1 as version
>> and testing could be done.
>>
>> If this is too difficult, its fine not to test here ... the code will also
>> be in 2.5.31 once it getst released and gets delivered over regular
>> distribution
>> updates.
>>
>> Note that we are only replacing the libgphoto2 library, the "gphoto2"
>> userland
>> tool will use the replaced library.
>>
>> Ciao, Marcus
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 07:59:16AM -0400, Joey Seal wrote:
>> > I have an M200 but I have always installed it from a package manager so
>> I
>> > am not sure how to build from source. After following
>> > https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/blob/master/INSTALL Im not sure
>> how to
>> > run libgphoto2
>> >
>> > joey@T480-1 ~> whereis libgphoto2
>> > libgphoto2: /usr/lib/libgphoto2 /usr/share/libgphoto2
>> > /usr/share/man/man3/libgphoto2.3.gz
>> > ~> tree /usr/lib/libgphoto2
>> > /usr/lib/libgphoto2
>> > ├── 2.5.30
>> > │   ├── ax203.so
>> > │   ├── canon.so
>> > │   ├── digigr8.so
>> > │   ├── dimagev.so
>> > │   ├── directory.so
>> > │   ├── docupen.so
>> > │   ├── jl2005a.so
>> > │   ├── jl2005c.so
>> > │   ├── kodak_dc240.so
>> > │   ├── lumix.so
>> > │   ├── mars.so
>> > │   ├── pentax.so
>> > │   ├── ptp2.so
>> > │   ├── ricoh_g3.so
>> > │   ├── sierra.so
>> > │   ├── sonix.so
>> > │   ├── sq905.so
>> > │   ├── st2205.so
>> > │   ├── topfield.so
>> > │   └── tp6801.so
>> > └── print-camera-list
>> >
>> > 1 directory, 21 files
>> > ~> tree /usr/share/libgphoto2/
>> > /usr/share/libgphoto2/
>> > └── 2.5.30
>> >     └── konica
>> >         ├── english
>> >         ├── french
>> >         ├── german
>> >         ├── japanese
>> >         ├── korean
>> >         └── spanish
>> >
>> > 2 directories, 6 files
>> > joey@T480-1 ~>
>> >
>> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 7:29 AM Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I am currently improving the OLC handling for Canon EOS / recent
>> PowerShot.
>> > >
>> > > OLC info provides a binary blob of quick changing data, like
>> aperture, iso,
>> > > shutterspeed, buttons, focusinfo ... and also shuttercounter
>> apparently.
>> > >
>> > > As the sizes are not in the format, I currently have handcoded them.
>> > >
>> > > To verify our current sets, can owners of Canon EOS and capture
>> capable
>> > > recent PowerShot build and install "libgphoto2" from current GIT
>> > > and run:
>> > >
>> > >         gphoto2 --set-config testolc=1 --debug --debug-logfile=olc.log
>> > >
>> > > And mail me the olc.log?
>> > >
>> > > Ciao, Marcus
>> > >
>> > >
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>> > >
>>
>

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