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basler / gst-plugin-pylon

The official GStreamer plug-in for Basler cameras
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Installation on Raspberry OS/64bit - need guidance #23

Closed helarsen closed 1 year ago

helarsen commented 1 year ago

I want to install on Raspberry OS/64bit (Linux pi103 5.15.76-v8+ #1597 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 4 12:16:41 GMT 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux). As described in the README.md I have installed: https://www.baslerweb.com/en/downloads/software-downloads/software-pylon-7-2-1-linux-arm-64bit-debian/ Also dependencies (meson and gstreamer) are properly installed for a Debian-based systems as described in the README.md Finally the files are in /opt/pylon and the export PYLON_ROOT=/opt/pylon is all set

Now here I am lost: 1) The README.md description is a bit unclear from that point onwards and I am stuck in finding the folder in which to invoke the command meson builddir --prefix /usr/ and where is the file: _mesonoptions.txt. Somehow I suppose I am missing a download - but which?

2) I realize that I have downloaded pylon 7.2.1 whereas 7.1 and 6.2 is supported - that could be a problem. Is it? If so how do I uninstall 7.2.1

Thanks for any hints.

michaelgruner commented 1 year ago

Hi @helarsen.

  1. You run meson builder --prefix /usr/ at the root of the gst-plugin-pylon project. For example:

    git clone https://github.com/basler/gst-plugin-pylon.git
cd gst-plugin-pylon
meson builddir --prefix /usr/

    In that same directory you'll find the meson_options.txt file, but for Pylon 7 you shouldn't need any option in there.

  2. I believe Pylon 7.2.1 should run fine.

thiesmoeller commented 1 year ago

documentation fix in v0.5.0