Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 39. LXQt Desktop

Kwayland-5.37.0 for lxqt

Introduction to kwayland

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

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.1 platform.

[Note]

Note

This package is extracted from the KF5 set of packages. If KDE Frameworks-5.37.0 is built, do NOT also build this package as presented here.

Package Information

Kwayland Dependencies

Required

extra-cmake-modules-5.37.0, Mesa-17.1.6 (built with Wayland-1.14.0 support), and Qt-5.9.1

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

Installation of kwayland

Install kwayland by running the following commands: 

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX                          \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                                   \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                                          \
      -DECM_MKSPECS_INSTALL_DIR=$LXQT_PREFIX/share/mkspecs/modules \
      -Wno-dev ..                                                  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libKF5WaylandClient.so and libKF5WaylandServer.so
Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/etc, $LXQT_PREFIX/lib/cmake/KF5Wayland, $LXQT_PREFIX/include/KF5/KWayland, and $LXQT_PREFIX/share/mkspecs

Short Descriptions

libKF5WaylandClient.so

contains the wayland-client Qt-style wrapper library.

libKF5WaylandServer.so

contains the wayland-server Qt-style wrapper library.

Last updated on 2017-08-25 14:22:07 -0700