Wayland-1.21.0
Installation of Wayland
Install Wayland by running the
following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Ddocumentation=false &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: env -u
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ninja test.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
Command Explanations
-Ddocumentation=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
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is a tool to generate proxy methods in
wayland-client-protocol.h and wayland-server-protocol.h
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libwayland-client.so
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contains API functions for writing Wayland applications
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libwayland-cursor.so
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contains API functions for managing cursors in
Wayland applications
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libwayland-egl.so
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contains API functions for handling OpenGL calls in
Wayland applications
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libwayland-server.so
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contains API functions for writing Wayland compositors
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