Compiling wxCam sources: -) Make sure you have wxWidgets installed on your distribution. (Ubuntu names: libwxgtk2.8 and libwxgtk2.8-dev) -) Make sure you have libxvidcore4 and libxvidcore4-dev -) Make sure you have libv4l-dev -) NEW: Make sure you have CImg library (cimg-dev). For wxcam versions >= 1.0.5, use at least cimg version 1.33. For older version, use CImg 1.2. -) NEW: Make sure you have mjpegtools (libmjpegtools-dev) -) NEW: Make sure you have alsa developement (libasound2-dev) -) You may also require: libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev -) Note for 64 bit systems: If you encounter the error "int_64 was already declared in this scope" in file mjpeg_types.h, this is a bug of mjpeg library. To overcome this bug, simply comment row 40 of your mjpeg_types.h file (ubuntu puts it in /usr/include/mjpegtools/mjpeg_types.h).