Remove advanced building options from README

This removes the section about advanced build options and build
dependencies and points to the docs page instead.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Schwiderski <lucas@lschwiderski.de>
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@ -6,21 +6,21 @@ Awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
## Building and installation
After extracting the dist tarball, run:
After extracting the dist tarball or cloning the repository, run:
```sh
make
sudo make install
```
This will create a build directory, run `cmake` in it and build Awesome.
This will
After building is finished, you can either install via `make install`:
1. create a build directory at `./build`,
2. run `cmake`,
3. build Awesome and
4. install it to the default prefix path `/usr/local`.
```sh
make install # you might need root permissions
```
or by auto-generating a .deb or .rpm package, for easy removal later on:
Alternatively to the above, you can generate a `.deb` or `.rpm` package, for easy installation management:
```sh
make package
@ -30,14 +30,9 @@ sudo dpkg -i awesome-x.y.z.deb
sudo rpm -Uvh awesome-x.y.z.rpm
```
NOTE: Awesome uses [`cmake`](https://cmake.org) to build. In case you want to
pass arguments to `cmake`, please use the `CMAKE_ARGS` environment variable. For
instance:
```sh
CMAKE_ARGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/awesome" make
```
### Advanced options and testing
A full list of dependencies, more advanced build options, as well as instructions on how to use the test suite can be found [here](https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/10-building-and-testing.md.html).
### Installing current git master as a package receipts
@ -60,64 +55,6 @@ make package
sudo apt install *.deb
```
### Build dependencies
Awesome has the following dependencies (besides a more-or-less standard POSIX
environment):
- [CMake >= 3.0.0](https://cmake.org)
- [Lua >= 5.1.0](https://www.lua.org) or [LuaJIT](http://luajit.org)
- [LGI >= 0.8.0](https://github.com/pavouk/lgi)
- [xproto >= 7.0.15](https://www.x.org/archive//individual/proto/)
- [libxcb >= 1.6](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) with support for the RandR, XTest, Xinerama, SHAPE and
XKB extensions
- [libxcb-cursor](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
- [libxcb-util >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
- [libxcb-keysyms >= 0.3.4](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
- [libxcb-icccm >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
- [libxcb-xfixes](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
- [xcb-util-xrm >= 1.0](https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm)
- [libxkbcommon](http://xkbcommon.org/) with X11 support enabled
- [libstartup-notification >=
0.10](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification/)
- [cairo](https://www.cairographics.org/) with support for XCB and GObject
introspection
- [Pango](http://www.pango.org/) with support for Cairo and GObject
introspection
- [GLib >= 2.40](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib) with support for GObject
introspection
- [GIO](https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/) with support for GObject
introspection
- [GdkPixbuf](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GdkPixbuf)
- libX11 with xcb support
- [Imagemagick's convert utility](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
- [libxdg-basedir >= 1.0.0](https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir)
Additionally, the following optional dependencies exist:
- [DBus](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/) for DBus integration
and the `awesome-client` utility
- [asciidoctor](https://asciidoctor.org/) for generating man pages
- [gzip](http://www.gzip.org/) for compressing man pages
- [ldoc >= 1.4.5](https://stevedonovan.github.io/ldoc/) for generating the
documentation
- [busted](https://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for running unit tests
- [luacheck](https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck) for static code analysis
- [LuaCov](https://keplerproject.github.io/luacov/) for collecting code coverage
information
- libexecinfo on systems where libc does not provide `backtrace_symbols()` to
generate slightly better backtraces on crashes
- `Xephyr` or `Xvfb` for running integration tests
- [GTK+ >= 3.10](https://www.gtk.org/) for `./themes/gtk/`
- [xcb-errors](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb-errors) for
pretty-printing of X11 errors
- [libRSVG](https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg) for displaying
SVG files without scaling artifacts
- [wmctrl](http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl) for testing WM interactions
with external actions
- [xterm](https://invisible-island.net/xterm/) for various test cases
## Running Awesome
You can directly select Awesome from your display manager. If not, you can

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@ -138,5 +138,5 @@ Individual test categories can be run as well:
* `make check-qa`: Run `luacheck` against the Lua library
* `make check-unit`: Run unit tests with `busted` against the Lua library. You can also run `busted <options> ./spec` if you want to specify options for `busted`.
* `make check-requires`: Check for invalid `require()` calls.
* `make check-examples`: Run integration tests within the examples in `./tests/examples'.
* `make check-examples`: Run integration tests within the examples in `./tests/examples`.
* `make check-themes`: Test themes.