Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.3-1128

Chapter 39. LXQt Desktop

kwayland-5.106.0 for lxqt

Introduction to kwayland

kwayland is a Qt-style API to interact with the wayland-client and wayland-server API.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

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This package is extracted from the KF5 set of packages. If KDE Frameworks-5.106.0 is built, do NOT also build this package as presented here.

Package Information

kwayland Dependencies

Required

extra-cmake-modules-5.106.0, Mesa-23.1.3 (built with Wayland-1.22.0 support), plasma-wayland-protocols-1.10.0, and (Qt-5.15.10 or qt-alternate-5.15.10)

Installation of kwayland

Install kwayland by running the following commands: 

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF         \
      -Wno-dev ..                 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Finally, remove some unneeded files as the root user: 

rm -rf /usr/mkspecs

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libKF5WaylandClient.so and libKF5WaylandServer.so
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/cmake/KF5Wayland, /usr/include/KF5/KWayland, and /usr/share/qlogging-categories5

Short Descriptions

libKF5WaylandClient.so

contains the wayland-client Qt-style wrapper library

libKF5WaylandServer.so

contains the wayland-server Qt-style wrapper library