Wayland-1.21.0

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 11.3 platform.

Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/releases/1.21.0/downloads/wayland-1.21.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f2653a2293bcd882d756c6a83d278903
Download size: 224 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.2 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)

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

-Ddocumentation=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