Detail a bit the build process

[wernight]

I suggest you detail how to find/install libobs. What I did:

$ find / -name libobs
/usr/share/obs/libobs

$ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev

$ cmake -DLIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/share/obs" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. 

So I also had to install Qt5 development base library, which should be listed as a dependency to help people compile this project.

At this point I'm seeing the ObsPluginHelpers.cmake https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink/issues/1 error (running on a rather stable Debian-based distro). So looks like it should start by stating that you should compile OBS (if I understand correctly).

[wernight]

Had to add set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11) to CMakeLists.txt.

Then a git clone of obs-studio and setting -DLIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR=obs-studio/cmake allowed me to compile. I know it means possible binary incompatibilities at this point.

... but it works!

[mark-orion]

This worked for me (portable build). The trick was to build OBS-STUDIO and then manually define LIBOBS_LIB and LIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR: cmake -DLIBOBS_LIB="../../obs-studio/build/libobs/libobs.so" -DLIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR="../../obs-studio/libobs" -DUNIX_STRUCTURE=0 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${HOME}/obs-studio-portable" .. However, the plugin library ends up in the wrong folder of the portable installation, so it is required to move/copy it to the plugin folder: cd ~/obs-studio-portable cp ./lib/obs-plugins/v4l2sink.so ./obs-plugins/64bit/

[sphaero]

For me it was quite a search. Followed the instructions to no avail. I finally found a way to build on Debian (testing) against the debian provided obs-studio. I also installed libobs-dev

cmake -DLIBOBS_LIB="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libobs.so.0" -DLIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR="../../obs-studio/libobs" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..

had to copy the .so file to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins/.

It shows in obs but segfaults when used :cry:

[sphaero]

Ow that's related to #29 and gave me hints to at least get it running.