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Core Wayland window system code and protocol
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The wayland-server-protocol.h and wayland-client-protocol.h headers are
currently being shipped in tarballs created using make dist. This causes
out-of-tree builds to fail since make will detect that the headers exist
by looking at the source directory (via VPATH) and not regenerate them.
But as opposed to ${top_builddir}/protocol, ${top_srcdir}/protocol is
not part of the include path and therefore the shipped files can't be
found during compilation.
Two solutions exist to this problem: 1) add ${top_srcdir}/protocol to
the include path to allow shipped files to be used if available or 2)
don't ship these generated files in release tarballs. The latter seems
the most appropriate. wayland-scanner is already a prerequisite in order
to generate wayland-protocol.c, so it is either built as part of the
package or provided externally. Generating all files from the protocol
definition at build time also ensures that they don't get out of sync.
Both of the generated headers are already listed in Makefile.am as
nodist_*_SOURCES, but at the same time they appear in include_HEADERS,
which will cause them to be added to the list of distributable files
after all. To prevent that, split them off into nodist_include_HEADERS.
Note that this problem will be hidden if a previous version of wayland
has been installed, since these files will exist in /usr/include and be
included from there. So this build error will only show for out-of-tree
builds on systems that don't have wayland installed yet.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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| configure.ac | ||
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| Makefile.am | ||
| README | ||
| TODO | ||
| wayland-scanner.m4 | ||
| wayland-scanner.mk | ||
What is 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. The
compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel
modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland
client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
(rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and
buffer management. The compositor receives input events and forwards
them to the relevant client. The clients creates buffers and renders
into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw. The
protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and
other interactions that must go through the compositor. However, the
protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that
makes wayland so simple. All clients are expected to handle rendering
themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL.
The weston compositor is a reference implementation of a wayland
compositor and the weston repository also includes a few example
clients.
Building the wayland libraries is fairly simple, aside from libffi,
they don't have many dependencies:
$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
$ cd wayland
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=PREFIX
$ make
$ make install
where PREFIX is where you want to install the libraries. See
http://wayland.freedesktop.org for more complete build instructions
for wayland, weston, xwayland and various toolkits.