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picam-native

This project is the native native library counterpart to picam.

Previous versions of picam used JNA, the latest versions use a pure JNI solution as provided by this project.

The implementation is based on the original source code for Raspistill, but with a significant re-write. See README.BROADCOM for the original copyright notice.

Building the shared library

Clone the source to a directory on your Pi.

Execute the "pi.sh" command to produce a "picam.so" shared library that your Java picam application can then use.

However, there is no real need to build the library yourself - a pre-built version is bundled with the picam-2.x distribution jar and this can be automatically extracted and loaded.

TODO

• TODO think about using vcos_log_error
• TODO any remaining configuration values to set from the Java (or that were missing generally)
• organise this native project a bit more (makefile?)
• issue of sometimes the capture not completing (mmal_server error in logs, same as picam issue?)