Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 12.3

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Wayland-1.23.0

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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

Package Information

Wayland Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.13.6

Optional

Doxygen-1.13.2, Graphviz-12.2.1 and xmlto-0.0.29 (to build the API documentation) and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.42 (to build the manual pages)

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

Command Explanations

-D documentation=false: This switch is used to disable building of the API documentation. Remove it if you have installed optional dependencies.

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