Re: Ocatve image acquisition on windows 10

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 8/14/19 8:02 PM, Nkosiphile Bhebhe wrote:
> Good day,
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to use a CCD camera for image acquisition direct from
> octave. However, I cannot seem to connect to the camera as the following
> error below keeps coming up. I tried downloading the forge
> image-acquisition but it seems this will not work for windows. Do have
> anything that can work for windows 10 OS as I do not have access to a
> linux computer?
> 
>  
> 
> pkg install -forge image-acquisition
> 
> configure: error: unable to find the v4l2_open() function
> 
> configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site
> 
> checking for g++... g++
> 
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
> 
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.exe
> 
> checking for suffix of executables... .exe
> 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> 
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> 
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> 
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> 
> checking for mkoctfile... yes
> 
> checking for fltk-config... /c/Octave/OCTAVE~1.0/mingw64/bin/fltk-config
> 
> checking for v4l2_open in -lv4l2... no
> 
>  
> 
> pkg: error running the configure script for image-acquisition.
> 
> error: called from
> 
>     configure_make at line 82 column 9
> 
>     install at line 184 column 7
> 
>     pkg at line 441 column 9
> 
>  
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Dr. Nkosiphile Andile Bhebhe
> 


The image-acquisition package does only work on Linux systems.  See
https://wiki.octave.org/Image_acquisition_package for details.

HTH,
Kai