Re: [Shotwell] Development environment setup or "How to build shotwell from source?"

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> > Since none of the major distributions ships OpenCV with DNN
> > enabled,
> > you have might have to build it yourself. There are several
> > options:
>
> Hmm, actually Debian *has* libopencv-dnn, but ... unfortunately the
> opencv used in the face recognition is opencv 3, while in
> Debian we have now OpenCV 4.

Oh nice. 

> I tried to fix detection by changing the pkg-config call to use
> opencv4
> as name, so the libs etc are found, but then compilation breaks down.
>
> It would be nice to get this to a modern standard.

Yeah that is somewhere on the agenda for 0.32, I just forgot to make
that a ticket (done now: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues/223)

Also the compiler bounds checks regarding arrays and memsetting C++
classes I see when compiling OpenCV 3 are a bit unsettling,