Wayland-1.24.0

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 12.4 platform.

Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/releases/1.24.0/downloads/wayland-1.24.0.tar.xz
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Download size: 1,607.6 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6,005.1 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.5 SBU (with tests)

"doxygen", "graphviz" and xmlto-0.0.29 (to build the API documentation) and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.43 (to build the manual pages)

Install Wayland by running the following commands:

meson setup build         \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -D documentation=false

ninja -C build

To test the results, issue:

env -u XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ninja -C build test

Now Install, as the root user:

ninja -C build install

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

Installed Programs: wayland-scanner

Installed Libraries: libwayland-client.so, libwayland-cursor.so, libwayland-egl.so, and libwayland-server.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/wayland

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