Thanks again for the quick reply. I'm answering one of my questions here for the sake of the list archives:
On OS X, it appears the SANE headers and libraries are in /usr/local/include/sane/ /usr/local/lib/sane/ and the SANE Mac SDK installs its files in /usr/local/Developer/SDKs/ MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/local/include/sane/ /usr/local/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/local/lib/sane/ -Arthur > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Arthur Hebert <arthur at evcl.com> wrote: >> > Thanks Allan. I am comfortable digging in and writing code, much more so >> for >> > scripting languages (e.g. bash, python) than compiled/linked languages >> (e.g. >> > C). >> > >> > A few related questions come to mind: >> > >> > * Is scanimage considered a frontend or a backend? >> >> frontend >> >> > >> > * How do I read/poll the scan-button hardware state from the device? >> (Note: >> > scanimage --help | grep "\-\-scan" results in "no" even when I hold down >> the >> > button) >> >> you would have to write your own frontend, or modify the button daemon >> in our old experimental tree. I don't think you can do it with >> scanimage. >> >> > * How do I invoke the fujitsu backend by itself (e.g. to see hardware >> > states, and to make use of JPEG output)? >> >> the backend is not a program. you cannot 'run' it. it is a library, >> which is 'ingested' by some other frontend program. the frontend then >> calls functions that are provided by this backend. >> >> > * I installed the SDK from the download page on my OS X 10.5. My system >> > developer tools are installed. Where did the SDK install the source >> code? >> > How do I build from it? >> >> I know nothing about this sdk, as it is not provided by us. Perhaps >> Mattias can give some help on the OSX specific parts. For front-end >> development, you only need to have some minimal sane header files >> installed someplace like /usr/include or /usr/local/include. No need >> to rebuild sane backends or sane frontends packages (yet). >> >> allan >> -- >> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20100119/cb539f50/attachment.htm>
