On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:21 AM Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Tarball releases are provided largely for distributions to build > packages. If you are interested in building GNOME Shell from source, > we would recommend building from version control using the build > script described at: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell > > Not only will that give you the very latest version of this rapidly > changing project, it will be much easier than get GNOME Shell and its > dependencies to build from tarballs. > Sorry if this has been asked before, but what is the current preferred way of building and testing GNOME Shell? There's no section on that wiki page about building that I can find. There is a link to https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildGnome but I can only find examples of application builds, not the shell, and I'm uncertain whether the shell has specific other requirements. The development guide page at https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development refers to jhbuild, but jhbuild instructions say it's obsolete and replaced by BuildStream. I was able to build gnome-shell with BuildStream, but have had some troubles figuring out how to run it, and am a bit unsure if that's actually supported as various old posts describe them as not yet working together. If I do 'bst shell core/gnome-shell.bst' and try to 'gnome-shell --x11 -r' in the workspace, clutter errors out unable to find a GL driver. I'm unsure whether this is because I'm using the Nvidia proprietary drivers and they're not available inside the workspace, or whether it wouldn't work even if I figure out how to fix this. (In a pinch I can probably switch back to Nouveau temporarily, if that would work.) Note the patch I'm working on changes both JS and C portions, so I can't just swap out the live JS. Thanks! -- brion
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