[doc] building and installation

[PhilLAL]

Hi,
until now, I used the conda packages which are a great enhancement for installation.
However, I recentlty wanted to build again LImA for testing, I followed https://lima1.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_install.html#using-scripts which seems to need update.
Here is my notes:

• getting the sources seems to be an older version and I think we need only to clone main repo through git clone git://github.com/esrf-bliss/Lima.git
  • libconfig is unnecessary according to [doc] error while getting/installing Lima  #71 let me understand it is not needed anymore, but is mentionned in https://lima1.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git.html#get-source
  • instruction for getting sources include unnecessary steps for --git submodules
  • when running example installation sudo ./install.sh --git --install-prefix=./install --install-python-prefix=./install/python tiff basler python pytango-server, after installing Pylon v5 in /opt/pylon5, output reports PYLON_LIBRARIES and PYLON_INCLUDE_DIRS are missing. I probably missed some information about this in Pylon doc nor Lima doc, do you know where I can find details?

Regards

[sdebionne]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your feedback on the documentation. There is always room for improvements...

I think we need only to clone main repo through git clone git://github.com/esrf-bliss/Lima.git

Do you mean that you have --recurse-submodules by default? Surprising.

libconfig is unnecessary

libconfig has always been an optional dependency -our Conda package is built with it.

getting sources include unnecessary steps

Well this is related to your first point. I usually do

git clone git://github.com/esrf-bliss/Lima.git
git submodule update --init --recursive

PYLON_LIBRARIES and PYLON_INCLUDE_DIRS are missing

If your Pylon installation is outside the default search paths of CMake, then you need to give a hint where to find it. Something like cmake -DPYLON_ROOT=/opt/pylon5.