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@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ expressing it, then please send a patch:) Qt-Compositor is meant as a toolbox for making new funky Wayland compositors. -As of today(15 march, 2011) it is not trivial to get Wayland to -work on all platforms. This document explains how to get Wayland and the -Qt-Compositor examples running with a raster backend on a Ubuntu 10.10 system. - Pre-requisites on Linux (apt-get): git, autoconf, automake, libtool, libexpat1-dev Pre-requisites on Mac OSX Snow Leopard: git, latest Gnu autoconf, latest Gnu automake, latest Gnu libtool, latest pkg-config. Make sure you have /usr/local/bin on the $PATH before /usr/bin @@ -37,16 +33,9 @@ dependencies, but we are not going to compile those. picked up by Qt's configure. # export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/install/lib/pkgconfig/ -5. When Qt is configured it will check for pkg-config for GLES2. To figure out -what version Qt will pick up, then do: -# pkg-config --libs glesv2 - 6. Set the library path to pick up the Wayland libraries # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/install/lib -7. While we are at it export the runtime path as well -# export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$HOME - 8. Get the build dependencies that you need for QtGui. # sudo apt-get build-dep libqt4-gui @@ -58,9 +47,9 @@ However, Qt-Compositor doesn't have this requirement. The support for xkbcommon is picked up by configure. If it is not detected the Wayland plug-in will be compiled with the: QT_NO_WAYLAND_XKB. -To be able to just compile xkbcommon on ubuntu without compiling xproto, -kbproto, macros and libX11 I apply this patch to libxkbcommon: -http://pastebin.com/YTcxFukh +libxkbcommon is available from: git://people.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbcommon.git +Use typically the following line to configure it: +# ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/install --with-xkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb Its a good idea to use out of source builds when building Qt. A good setup could be: $HOME/dev/qt-src/lighthouse where lighthouse is where you have a @@ -96,14 +85,3 @@ Makes generates a executable in $QT-COMPOSITOR-DIR/bin. Execute it and pass in This should give you a blank window. If you now open a another terminal with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set and run a simple Qt example with the -platform Wayland, it should render into this window. - -This gives us the raster back-end. It is possible to run Qt with scenegraph and -sending GL surfaces from clients to the compositor. However, it requires some -more setup. Please follow the instructions on the Wayland -page (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html) closely. - -At the time of writing, the Building Wayland instructions note that a patch is -required for the linux kernel for using the Nouveau driver. On ubuntu systems -its real easy to build new kernels (takes a bit of time thoguh). I followed -these instructions: -http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu |