From ab87410023a139c124bccb2817e567a7fa4fabab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Leonardo=20Hern=C3=A1ndez=20Hern=C3=A1ndez?= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:52:26 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] clarify the dependencies needed by dwl Note that previous df131cdb78c6e3e79c3fafa522f0e4f6b43d2ab4 libX11 headers were also required for building (but not for runtime) Also, I want to apologize to the packagers for do not list *all* the required dependencies before. --- README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index aa4591b..62ae872 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -50,14 +50,28 @@ Feature *non-goals* for the main codebase include: ## Building dwl -dwl has only two dependencies: `wlroots` and `wayland-protocols`. +dwl has the following dependencies: +``` +libinput +wayland +wlroots (compiled with the libinput backend) +xkbcommon +wayland-protocols (compile-time only) +pkg-config (compile-time only) +``` +If you enable X11 support: +``` +libxcb +libxcb-wm +wlroots (compiled with X11 support) +Xwayland (runtime only) +``` Simply install these (and their `-devel` versions if your distro has separate development packages) and run `make`. If you wish to build against a Git version of wlroots, check out the [wlroots-next branch]. -To enable XWayland, you should also install xorg-xwayland and uncomment its flag -in `config.mk`. +To enable XWayland, you should uncomment its flags in `config.mk`. ## Configuration