Re: prosilicaSupport for arm

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 6/8/20 1:34 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Folks,
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>> Using one of the drivers based on the open source aravis library seems a better option for portability.
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> Pierrick had taken our conversation off of tech-talk.  I have appended some of the messages we have exchanged on this topic.

I thought this might be the case.  Thanks for bringing the conclusions back on list.

> In this case the vendor does provide their supported Vimba SDK for ARM.  They will presumably provide tech support for any issues.
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> On the other hand I am not sure what the state of building ARM support in aravis is.  There are at least 2 issues with cross-compiling for ARM on the aravis git site that do not show successful resolution:
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> https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/issues/245
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> https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/issues/207
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> The libaravis-dev packages do appear to be available for Debian arm.  But they only include aravis 0.6, while areaDetector ADAravis and aravisGigE currently require 0.7.2 because that fixes serious caching bugs.
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> Mark
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> ________________________________
> From: Mark Rivers
> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:48 PM
> To: 'Pierrick M Hanlet'
> Subject: RE: prosilicaSupport for arm
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> The Vimba SDK you need to download for ARM is on this page:
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> https://www.alliedvision.com/en/products/software.html
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> This is the download link:
> https://www.alliedvision.com/en/products/software.html#agb-modal-content-5496
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> Let me know if you questions or problems.
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> Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierrick M Hanlet <hanlet at fnal.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 9:49 PM
> To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: prosilicaSupport for arm
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> Thanks again Mark,
> I suspect that now I need to know what is SDK, so that I can download the libVimbaC.so file for arm.
> Would the be found in the link that you gave me a couple of days ago.
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> Just in case you've not figured it out already, I know very little about cameras.
> Best wishes,
> Pierrick
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> On 6/4/20 8:42 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> Just to be clear the libVimbaC.so files came from me downloading the SDK and extracting those files, adding them to ADVimba. You need to do that for ARM.
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>> ADVimba can communicate with your Prosilica camera. I am using that exclusively now, I no longer use ADProsilica.
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>> Mark
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jun 4, 2020, at 8:26 PM, Pierrick M Hanlet <hanlet at fnal.gov> wrote:
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>>> Hi Mark,
>>> I'm attempting to follow your advice regarding using ADVimba.
>>> Unfortunately this doesn't build either
>>> since there is no libVimbaC.so.  I'm not certain from where this file
>>> originates, but in vimbaSupportC/os/
>>> there are directories for windows and linux-x86 with the shared object
>>> libraries, but not for arm.
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm not certain how vimba is used for the Prosilica camera. It's
>>> build requires ADGenICam.
>>> What I'm really trying to do is to build ADProsilica, or something that
>>> communicates with my
>>> Prosilica GC camera, as a support module.  The IOC will come later.
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Pierrick
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>>>> On 6/2/20 6:10 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>>>> Hi Pierrick,
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>>>> If you go to this link:
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>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.alliedvision.com_en_support_software-2Ddownloads.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=lWgMUJ9IIDH_eCcPLDGLwQ&m=Vpl7b7UwplPdOJbLQ3fvlO3U9Eg3ZCRic1Qz6bsAB80&s=BPK2roq6z1XsgZKVrUOZh_KAsxNuTM9m7kyRkZbFr0I&e=
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>>>> and select "Legacy Software" you will see PvAPI.  They claim the Linux PvAPI support includes ARM.
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>>>> That said, you might want to switch to ADVimba instead.  It uses the Vimba SDK that AVT actively supports, whereas ADProsilica uses the obsolete PvAPI SDK.
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>>>> Mark
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 5:46 PM
>>>> To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
>>>> Subject: prosilicaSupport for arm
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>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>> I'd like to run my Prosilica GigE from a raspberry pi and I find that in ./prosilicaSupport/os there is no linux-arm directory with libPvAPI.a.  The README tells from where you downloaded the software, but all I see there is Vimba, but no libPvAPI.a library, though what I found does have an arm version.
>>>> Any suggestions as to how to move forward?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Pierrick
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pierrick Hanlet
>>>> Fermi National Accelerator
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>>>> "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierrick Hanlet
>>> Fermi National Accelerator
>>> Accelerator Front End Controls
>>> +1-630-840-5555 -- lab
>>> +1-312-687-4980 -- mobile
>>>
>>> "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford
>>>
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> --
> Pierrick Hanlet
> Fermi National Accelerator
> Accelerator Front End Controls
> +1-630-840-5555 -- lab
> +1-312-687-4980 -- mobile
> 
> "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford
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> ________________________________
> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 2:53 PM
> To: Pierrick M Hanlet
> Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: prosilicaSupport for arm
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> On 6/2/20 3:45 PM, Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> I'd like to run my Prosilica GigE from a raspberry pi and I find that in
>> ./prosilicaSupport/os there is no
>> linux-arm directory with libPvAPI.a.  The README tells from where you
>> downloaded the software,
>> but all I see there is Vimba, but no libPvAPI.a library, though what I
>> found does have an arm version.
>> Any suggestions as to how to move forward?
> 
> Using one of the drivers based on the open source aravis library seems a better option
> for portability.
> 
>> $ sudo apt-get install aravis-tools libaravis-dev
>> $ arv-viewer