Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 13.0

Chapter 37. LXQt Desktop

kwayland-6.6.1 for lxqt

Introduction to kwayland

kwayland is a Qt-style API to interact with the wayland-client and wayland-server API.

[Note]

Note

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.0 platform.

[Important]

Important

This package is extracted from the KF6 set of packages. If KDE Frameworks-6.23.0 is built, do NOT also build this package as presented here.

Package Information

kwayland Dependencies

Required

Extra-CMake-Modules-6.23.0, Mesa-25.3.5 (built with Wayland-1.24.0 support), plasma-wayland-protocols-1.20.0, and Qt-6.10.2

Installation of kwayland

Install kwayland by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr        \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR=libexec \
      -D KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON  \
      -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -W no-dev ..                        &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libKWaylandClient.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/KWayland and /usr/lib/cmake/KWayland

Short Descriptions

libKWaylandClient.so

contains the wayland-client Qt-style wrapper library