Make the libudev dependency optional #709
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Subject says it all.
The main driver for this is to be able to cross-compile
espflash
for other Linux targets (e.g. Raspberry Pi) with either:or
Neither of these can do it when the dependency to
libudev
is present, and both do succeed when the dependency tolibudev
is not there.I'm yet to test this on a RPI (real soon), but on a regular Ubuntu 22.04, disabling the
libudev
dependency actually does not lead to a visible loss in functionality. At least not whenespflash
is driven programmatically via its API as I did./dev/ttyUSB0
is still detected as the serial port where the esp32(s3) device is answering.