Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.0

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Cheese-3.38.0

Introduction to Cheese

Cheese is used to take photos and videos with fun graphical effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-3.0.27, clutter-gtk-1.8.4, gnome-desktop-40.4, gst-plugins-bad-1.18.4, gst-plugins-good-1.18.4 (built with v4l-utils-1.20.0), libcanberra-0.30, and libgudev-237

Recommended

gnome-video-effects-0.5.0 (at runtime, for video effects), gobject-introspection-1.68.0 and Vala-0.52.5

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2, libxslt-1.1.34, appstream-glib, LCOV , and Nautilus SendTo

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cheese

Kernel Configuration

Depending on your camera, enable the appropriate options and recompile the kernel if necessary: 

Device Drivers  --->
  Multimedia support --->
    <*> Autoselect ancillary drivers (tuners, sensors, i2c, spi, frontends) [CONFIG_MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT]
    Media device types --->  
      <*> Cameras/video grabbers support  [CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT]
    Media drivers --->
      <*> Media USB Adapters  --->         [CONFIG_MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT]
                  Select device(s) as needed

Installation of Cheese

First, fix a problem generating the man page: 

sed -i "s/&version;/3.38.0/" docs/reference/cheese{,-docs}.xml

Next, fix some build issues due to removed Vala functions: 

patch -Np1 -i ../cheese-3.38.0-upstream_fixes-1.patch

Install Cheese by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. &&
ninja

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-Dgtk_doc=false: This switch prevents the build system from generating and installing the API documentation. Omit this switch if you have GTK-Doc-1.33.2 installed and wish to generate and install the API documentation. Building the documentation is broken due to an incompatibility with gtk-doc.

Contents

Installed Program: cheese
Installed Library: libcheese.so and libcheese-gtk.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/gtk-doc/html,share/help/*}/cheese

Short Descriptions

cheese

is a webcam tool with graphical effects

libcheese.so

contains the Cheese API functions

libcheese-gtk.so

contains the Cheese GTK+ widgets

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