More detailed elaboration on build requirements

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Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2008-01-09 14:26:27 +01:00 committed by Julien Danjou
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Requirements
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In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of:
- Xlib, Xinerama, Xrandr, Xft
- libconfuse >= 2.6
- cairo
In order to build awesome you need the Xlib header files, libconfuse and cairo.
Creating the man pages also requires recent versions of the asciidoc and xmlto
tools.
In order to build the awesome man pages, you need these tools:
- asciidoc (recent version)
- xmlto (recent version)
- docbook XSL stylesheets
Installation
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In order to build the source code reference, you need these tools:
- doxygen
- graphviz
Building and Installation
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If building from git sources, run "./autogen.sh". When autoreconf has
finished, you can follow the following instructions for building a dist
tarball.
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If you're using gcc as your compiler and do not want awesome's default set
of warning flags, add AWESOME_CFLAGS="" to your "make" lines.
The source code reference can be built with "make doc".
Running awesome
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start awesome using startx