Wayland-1.16.0

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# Wayland-1.16.0

## 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-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases/wayland-1.16.0.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 0c215e53de71d6fb26f7102cdc6432d3

- Download size: 428 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

### Wayland Dependencies

#### Required

libxml2-2.9.9

#### Optional

Doxygen-1.8.15, Graphviz-2.40.1 and xmlto-0.0.28 (to build the API documentation) and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.33 (to build the manual pages)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wayland

## Installation of Wayland

Install Wayland by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr    \
                --disable-static \
                --disable-documentation &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check. If a Desktop Environment has not been started that uses XDG, it's possible that 90% of the test suite will fail. To rectify this, create the directory listed in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR first, if required.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`--disable-static`: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

`--disable-documentation`: 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, 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-server.so` | contains API functions for writing Wayland compositors.

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