Installing The Mvimpact Acquire Driver - Matrix Vision mvBlueFOX Technical Manual

7.2 Linux

7.2.2 Installing the mvIMPACT Acquire driver

To use the mvBlueFOX camera within Linux (grab images from it and change its settings), a driver is needed,
consisting of several libraries and several configuration files. These files are required during run time.
To develop applications that can use the mvBlueFOX camera, a source tree is needed, containing header files,
makefiles, samples, and a few libraries. These files are required at compile time.
Both file collections are distributed in a single package:
mvBlueFOX-x86_ABI2-n.n.n.tgz
1. Please start a console and change into a directory e.g.
cd /home/username/workspace
2. Copy the install script (available as download from
hardware driver to the workspace directory (e.g. from a driver CD or from the website):
~/workspace$ cp /media/cdrom/drv/Linux/install_mvBlueFOX.sh /
. && cp /media/cdrom/drv/Linux/mvBlueFOX-x86_ABI2-1.12.45.tgz -t ./
3. Run the install script:
~/workspace$ ./install_mvBlueFOX.sh
Note
The install script has to be executable. So please check the rights of the file.
During installation, the script will ask, if it should build all tools and samples.
You may need to enable the execute flag with
chmod a+x install_mvBlueFOX.sh.
The installation script checks the different packages and installs them with the respective standard packages man-
ager (apt-get) if necessary.
Note
The installation script (
n.n.tgz" ) must reside in the same directory. Nothing is written to this directory during script execution, so
no write access to the directory is needed in order to execute the script.
You need Internet access in case one or more of the packages on which the GenICam™ libs depend are not yet
installed on your system. In this case, the script will install these packages, and for that, Internet access is required.
The script takes two arguments, both of which are optional:
1. target directory name
2. version
The target directory name specifies where to place the driver. If the directory does not yet exist, it will be created.
The path can be either absolute or relative; i.e. the name may but need not start with
MATRIX VISION GmbH
"install_mvBlueFOX.sh"
/home/username/workspace
https://www.matrix-vision.com
) and the archive ( "mvBlueFOX-x86_ABI2-n.
"/."
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) and the
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