[sane-devel] Introduction to backends, hello world!

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
It is probably a Genesys chipset device, so you should probably liaise 
with Povilas who is knee-deep in the genesys backend at the moment.

Cheers,
Ralph

On 2020-05-23 7:26 p.m., Andrew Chan wrote:
> Hi all! I'm new to C development coming from a web dev bootcamp 
> background.
>
> I picked up a Canon CanoScan LiDE 90 for $10 thinking it would be a 
> plug and play scanning solution like most of the LiDE series but 
> unfortunately it's one of the few without support. With so many 
> related models supported I was hoping this might be a good opportunity 
> to learn how to write a driver and prevent more plastic from going to 
> landfill.
>
> I've cloned and forked the backends repo but am failing running 
> autogen.sh and I don't understand the errors. I've attached the stderr 
> output if anyone can help point me in the right direction. My 
> /proc/version is Linux version 5.3.0-51-generic 
> (buildd at lgw01-amd64-018) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 
> 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)) #44~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 23 14:27:18 UTC 
> 2020.