NNStreamer build configurations

Enable/Disable H/W & Neural Network Framework Adaptation (Tensor-Filter Subplugins)
- option('enable-tensorflow-lite', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build tensorflow-lite subplugin
  - Tensorflow-lite is required for build.
  - We supply "tensorflow-lite devel" packages along with headers and a proper pkgconfig file for Tizen, Ubuntu (PPA), Yocto/OpenEmbedded, and Android for Tensorflow 1.09, 1.13, 1.15.
- option('enable-tensorflow', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build tensorflow subplugin
  - Tensorflow is required for build
  - We supply "tensorflow devel" package along with headers and a proper pkgconfig file for Tizen and Ubuntu (PPA).
- option('enable-caffe2', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build caffe2 subplugin
  - Requires caffe2 (devel) and ptorobuf (devel)
  - We supply proper "caffe2 devel" package for Tizen and Ubuntu(PPA).
- option('enable-pytorch', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build pytorch subplugin
  - Requires pytorch (devel).
  - We supply proper "pytorch devel" package for Tizen and Ubuntu(PPA).
- option('enable-movidius-ncsdk2', type: 'boolean', value: false)
- option('enable-python', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build python-custom-filter support
  - This enables to insert a python object as a filter to GStreamer/NNStreamer pipelines.
- option('enable-nnfw-runtime', type: 'boolean', value: false) # true to enable nnfw tensor filter element
  - Build nnfw-runtime (neurun) subplugin.
  - nnfw-runtime (neurun) is a neural network inference accelerator of Samsung (Apache2.0, opened via Tizen.org)
- option('enable-cppfilter', type: 'boolean', value: true) # Allows C++ custom filters
  - Allows to insert C++ class as a filter in a GStreamer/NNStreamer pipeline.
- option('enable-edgetpu', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build EDGE-TPU support.
- option('enable-armnn', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build ARMNN support
- option('enable-openvino', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build OpenVINO support
Change behaviors of H/W & Neural Network Framework Adaptation
- option('enable-pytorch-use-gpu', type: 'boolean', value: false) # default value, can be specified at run time
  - Enable GPU usage for PyTorch in the .ini file.
- option('enable-tflite-nnapi-delegation', type: 'boolean', value: false) # true to enable tensorflow-lite to delegate nnapi interpretation to nnfw backend in tizen
  - Enable NNAPI delegation for tflite by default.
  - This can be overridden by each instance of pipelines and their elements.
Test & Examples
- option('enable-test', type: 'boolean', value: true)
  - Build unit tests
- option('install-test', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Install the unit test binaries to ${prefix}/${libdir}/nnstreamer/unittest/ (default: /usr/lib/nnstreamer/unittest)
  - Install custom filters used for unit tests to ${prefix}/${libdir}/nnstreamer/customfilters/ (default: /usr/lib/nnstreamer/customfilters)
- option('install-example', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Install example custom filters after the build even if test is not enabled or installed.
NNStreamer Core
- option('enable-orc', type: 'boolean', value: true) # default true, use orc when found orc library
  - Use ORC for tensor-transform to apply SIMD.
- option('disable-video-support', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Disable video support in tensor-converter
  - You may use this to remove the dependencies on GST-Video. (for video-only lightweight systems)
- option('disable-audio-support', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Disable audio support in tensor-converter
  - You may use this to remove the dependencies on GST-Audio. (for audio-only lightweight systems)
- option('enable-filter-cpp-class', type: 'boolean', value: false) # Allows to accept C++ classes as filter subplugin implementation.
  - Allow to implement tensor-filter subplugin (HW / NNFW adaptor) as a C++ class. (WIP: #2194)
Configure nnstreamer.ini
- option('enable-env-var', type: 'boolean', value: true)
  - Set enable_envvar=false in nnstreamer.ini
- option('enable-symbolic-link', type: 'boolean', value: true)
  - Set enable_symlink=false in nnstreamer.ini
API Support
- option('enable-capi', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build NNStreamer's C API set.
  - This is Tizen Machine Learning C-API, but can be used for other OS as well (e.g., Ubuntu)
- option('framework-priority-tflite', type: 'string', value: 'tensorflow-lite,nnfw,armnn,edgetpu', description: 'A comma separated prioritized list of neural network frameworks to open a .tflite file')
  - When a framework name is not specified for .tflite files via APIs, this option tells NNStreamer which frameworks to search.
  - There can be multiple candidates with higher priorities from the left.
Access Control / OS Specifics
- option('enable-tizen', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Build NNStreamer for Tizen devices
    - Be more strict on access control (C-API); i.e., apply Tizen Privilege Control APIs and restrict a few unwanted behaviors.
    - Search for available camera/mic node with Tizen Multimedia APIs automatically w/ C-API usages.
    - Use Tizen's "DLOG" for logging instead of GStreamer/GLib logging mechanism.
- option('enable-tizen-sensor', type: 'boolean', value: false)
  - Add a NNStreamer plugin, "tensor-src-tizensensor".
  - This allows accepting Tizen Sensor Framework's output as inputs of GStreamer/NNStreamer pipeline with "tensor-src-tizensensor" elements.
- option('enable-element-restriction', type: 'boolean', value: false) # true to restrict gst-elements in api
  - Provide a whitelist of GStreamer elements. Users won't be able to use other GStreamer elements with C-APIs
- option('restricted-elements', type: 'string', value: '')
  - The whitelist. (Yes, the name is weird. We need fo update it)

Related Code: /meson_options.txt

Updated at 2020-04-07, based on commit 5ed942e6, (NNStreamer 1.5.1)