libCEC Build from Source

This guide provides how to build libCEC on your own to enable CEC feature with Ubuntu 18.04.

We strongly recommend to update your system before proceeding.

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$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

Install the necessary packages.

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$ sudo apt install git cmake build-essential libudev-dev python-dev swig

libCEC that we're going to use is an open source project by Pulse-Eight.

• libCEC on Github
• libCEC introduction page

Clone platform for libCEC uses from the Github repository then build/install that.

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$ git clone https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/platform.git
$ mkdir platform/build
$ cd platform/build
$ cmake ..
$ make -j 8
$ sudo make install

Clone libCEC from the Github repository then build/install that.

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$ git clone https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec.git
$ cd libcec
$ wget -O libcec.patch https://github.com/Kwiboo/libcec/commit/48255b7d4e1cba1050b8abfbd03be37c0737e832.patch
$ git apply libcec.patch
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DHAVE_LINUX_API=1 ..
$ make -j 8
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig

You have to remote exist libcec4 library to apply the new one.

After removing libcec4 via the apt package manager, you have to install cec-utils since cec-utils also will be removed when you remove libcec4.

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$ sudo apt remove libcec4
$ sudo apt install cec-utils