From: Yong Bakos <yba...@humanoriented.com> The original readme just had a link to the official build instructions, which does not help a user with these build tools.
Signed-off-by: Yong Bakos <yba...@humanoriented.com> --- README | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index c101150..b7eea61 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1 +1,53 @@ -See http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html for documentation +Wayland Build Tools + +These are scripts that automate the standard Wayland build and installation +directions (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html), and take care of +downloading and building the various upstream components needed for Wayland, +the Weston compositor, and Xwayland. + +These scripts and instructions are tested with a fresh installation of Ubuntu, +and should work well for any Debian-based distro that uses APT. + + +Step 1: Install git, and clone the wayland-build-tools repository + + apt-get install -y git + git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-build-tools + +Where you place this repository is up to you. + + +Step 2: Prepare expected directories + + mkdir ~/Wayland # sources and builds will be here + mkdir -p ~/.config/wayland-build-tools + cp wl_defines.sh ~/.config/wayland-build-tools/ + +You can change these directories if you wish, but these are the defaults +and you'll need to edit the scripts to match. See WL_ROOT and WLD in +wl_defines.sh. + + +Step 3: Install packaged build dependencies + + ./wl_install_deps + + +Step 4: Clone the necessary repositories + + ./wl_clone + + +Step 5: Build upstream dependencies, Wayland, and Weston + + ./wl_build + + +Step 6: Run Weston + + source ~/.config/wayland-build-tools/wl_defines.sh + weston + + +Build scripts and configuration for other distros are welcome. For more +details, see https://blogs.s-osg.org/kick-waylands-tires-wayland-build-tools. -- 2.7.2 _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel