Gaming Linux® From Scratch - Version a299

Chapter 3. Shared Dependencies

Wayland-1.23.1

Introduction to Wayland

Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol.

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Note

Development versions of GLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

Wayland Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.13.3

Installation of Wayland

Install Wayland by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -D documentation=false &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: env -u XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

32-bit Installation of Wayland

First clean the build directory: 

rm -rf *

Install 32-bit-Wayland by running the following commands: 

CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32"         \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib32/pkgconfig \
meson setup ..                       \
      --prefix=/usr                  \
      --libdir=/usr/lib32            \
      --buildtype=release            \
      -D documentation=false &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: env -u XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR ninja install
cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
rm -rf DESTDIR
ldconfig

Command Explanations

-D documentation=false: This switch is used to disable building of the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: wayland-scanner
Installed Libraries: libwayland-client.so, libwayland-cursor.so, libwayland-egl.so, and libwayland-server.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/wayland

Short Descriptions

wayland-scanner

is a tool to generate proxy methods in wayland-client-protocol.h and wayland-server-protocol.h

libwayland-client.so

contains API functions for writing Wayland applications

libwayland-cursor.so

contains API functions for managing cursors in Wayland applications

libwayland-egl.so

contains API functions for handling OpenGL calls in Wayland applications

libwayland-server.so

contains API functions for writing Wayland compositors