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Mauro Carvalho Chehab edited this page May 23, 2019 · 3 revisions

ZBar Wiki pages

Welcome to the zbar wiki!

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, including webcams. As its development stopped in 2012, I took the task of keeping it updated with the V4L2 API. This is the main repository for it. There's a clone at at LinuxTV.org, and another one at gitlab. https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/

News

ZBar 0.23 - May, 23 2019

We just released today a new ZBar version. This time, the main features are:

  • Support for Gtk3 (backward support with Gtk2 will be maintained.
    • The Gtk3 feature is enabled with ./configure --with-gtk=gtk3.
    • Autodetection with Gtk3 as default is enabled with: ./configure --with-gtk=auto
  • Support for Python 3 (backward support with Python2 will be maintained);
    • The Python 3 feature is enabled with ./configure --with-python=python3.
    • Autodetection with Python 3 as default is enabled with: ./configure --with-python=auto
    • A small test script that can be used as an example is provided. It runs with make check-python.
  • Support for ZBar Gtk GObject Introspection (GIR). That allows using ZBar Gtk3 widgets on any language that it is compatible with GIR, including python 2 and python 3.
    • This feature is enabled by default (if the system has the needed dependencies).
    • You can test this feature by building ZBar with Gtk3 and calling make check-gi.

Fedora 30 packages already available on our COPR site.

ZBar Fedora COPR packages

Now, for the people brave enough with uses Fedora, I created a new COPR repository there, with should track newest ZBar releases for older versions of Fedora. The repository is located at:

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