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Add FreeBSD support #102

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Add FreeBSD support #102

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I've used the proposed changes on a recent FreeBSD CURRENT with amd64 (i.e. x86_64) architecture with Logitech C922 Pro webcam.

What works:

  • video stream capturing via MmapStream
  • querying and changing capturing formats
  • querying and altering camera controls

What doesn't work:

  • video stream capturing via UserptrStream

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raymanfx commented Aug 8, 2024

Thank you!

@raymanfx raymanfx merged commit 33817d4 into raymanfx:master Aug 8, 2024
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let pkg_conf = pkg_config::Config::new()
.probe("libv4l2")
.expect("pkg-config has failed to find `libv4l2`");
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Wasn't v4l2-sys to build purely against the kernel bindings? v4l-sys links against libv4l2. Can you clarify why this is needed here (i.e. does FreeBSD provide fallbacks here?).

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Location of linux/videodev2.h (included in wrapper.h) is generally speaking indeterminate.
It might reside outside of default include location, i.e. not in /usr/include.

pkg-config crate provides means to query include directories necessary to locate libv4l2 header files in pkgconf database:

$ pkgconf --cflags-only-I libv4l2
-I/usr/local/include
$

I don't think changes from this PR affected/changed linking in any way.

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It doesn't affect linking, but the question remains why the kernel-only package now relies on pkg-config and lib4l2 being available, just to locate standard Linux headers. That should at the very least require a comment otherwise, to explain that this build.rs is not interested in generating bindings to libv4l2.

There should be a different/better way that doesn't involve these implicit dependencies. @raymanfx what do you think?

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Sorry, I didn't realize the presence of linux/videodev2.h header file doesn't depend on the existence of libv4l2 in pkgconf database on Linux.

I prepared a PR to limit use of pkg-config to FreeBSD only avoid libv4l2 dependency added via pkg-config: #106

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Ah, understood, yeah it should be a Linux UAPI header (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h), but maybe FreeBSD provides it as part of the v4l2 package for compatibility? I'm not certain how FreeBSD works, but I think I found it here: https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/v4l_compat

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