This builds the core static libraries that get used in other parts of Acquire. For the most part, these are interfaces private to Acquire, although there are some exceptions.
- acquire-core-logger Logging facility.
- acquire-core-platform Enables compatibility across operating systems.
- acquire-device-properties Defines the parameters used for configuring devices.
- acquire-device-kit Defines the API needed for implementing a new device driver.
- acquire-device-hal Defines the API the runtime uses for interacting with drivers and devices.
Acquire reports debug and trace events by printing them through a "logger". This library defines what that is and provides a function for setting a global callback at runtime that handles incoming messages.
This involves very little code. It barely merits being its own library. It's here to define what the expected callback interface is - something almost every component needs to know about.
The Acquire core platform library defines a platform-independent interface for interacting with the linux, osx, or windows operating systems.
This is used internally with certain Acquire components.
This library defines many of the types that the Acquire device interfaces rely on to configure and query devices.
This is a header only library. Some types are defined outside this library -
it needs to be combined with acquire-device-properties to be fully defined.
Acquire relies on device adapters to define video sources, filters and sinks. The Device Kit defines the interfaces that need to be implemented to create a device adapter.
Each device adapter is compiled to a shared library that exposes a single
function, acquire_driver_init_v0(). That function returns a "Driver"
instance. Here, a Driver's responsibility is to list a number of devices that
can be opened and to manage those devices as resources. It also manages those
resources.
The "Devices" themselves may implement specific interfaces depending on their
Kind. See storage.h and camera.h for details.
The Acquire HAL defines internal (private) functionality that the runtime uses to interface with different kinds of devices.