| Compiling Camstream in Linux |
| Friday, 16 March 2007 | |
 Compiling Camstream in Linux. Camstream is a collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices, enhancing your Linux system with multimedia video.It's written in C++ and with a nice GUI frontend in QT. Read more I found it a bit of a struggle to get Camstream compile under KDevelop, being new to Linux. Errors such as the following kept popping up: "There is neither a Makefile.cvs file nor an autogen.sh script in the project directory." "No targets specified and no makefile found" It was nothing big, I just missed the "make" command. You may find Camstream here .A big thank you to Nemosoft Unv. Following are the steps : 1>Uncompress with: gunzip camstream-0.27.tar.gz Extract package: tar -xvf camstream-0.27.tar 2>Go into the directory: cd camstream-0.27 via a terminal 3>Run ./configure You will get the following screen at the end 
4>Type make, which may take a while. 
5>Start KDevelop, through Applications->Programming->KDevelop:C/C++. 6>Goto Project,Import Existing Project.... See below. 
7>Browse to /camstream-0.27/camstream Select Generic C++ Application(Custom Makefiles) You will get the following screen: 
8> Click "Build Project", then "Execute". Camstream starts: 
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