please help ..The New DDE_USB is giving compilation errors...

tapas kundu tapaskundu1 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 11:45:27 CEST 2009


Hi Dirk,
 Could you please tell me the model of webcam which you have tested with
this usbcam software .

Thanks
Tapas

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Dirk Vogt <dvogt at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Hi,
> >      Could you please tell us how can I easily port a linux usb webcam
> > driver . Please know that I am a beginner . Please explain procedure
> > to me..
>
> When you have a look at the Makefile in examples/usbcam/src/, you'll see
> that, there are variables which contain the source files that should be
> compiled.  There are several of this variables containing the files for
> different webcams driver. For excample, GSPCA_SRC_C, CPIA_SRC_C.
>
> So a way to do it would be to identify the source files needed for your
> webcam, add those source files to a new variable
> MY_NEW_PRETTY_CAMDRIVER_SRC_C and finally add this variable to SRC_C.
>
> Likely there will be undefined references after this procedure, so you
> somehow have to resolve those errors. Either this can be done by
> including more source files that include those symbols or by
> reimplementing them.  A good place for the last way could be support.c.
>
> Good luck,
> Dirk.
>
>
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