Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 25. X Libraries

Clutter-1.18.4

Introduction to Clutter

The Clutter package contains an open source software library used for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.

[Note]

Note

Anything built with this toolkit needs hardware 3D acceleration from the graphics driver at runtime. This is provided by MesaLib (or by proprietary graphics drivers), but is not available for every graphics card nor for all virtual machines. You may wish to review Checking the DRI installation.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Clutter Dependencies

Required

ATK-2.12.0, Cogl-1.18.2, and JSON-GLib-1.0.2

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.40.0, libinput-0.5.0, libxkbcommon-0.4.3, Systemd (for GUdev), and Wayland-1.5.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.20 and Tslib

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/clutter

Installation of Clutter

Install Clutter by running the following commands: 

patch -Np1 -i ../clutter-1.18.4-libinput_fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr               \
            --sysconfdir=/etc           \
            --enable-egl-backend        \
            --enable-evdev-input        \
            --enable-wayland-backend    \
            --enable-wayland-compositor &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check from an X terminal emulator.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-egl-backend: This switch enables the experimental EGL windowing backend which is required for GNOME Wayland support.

--enable-evdev-input: This switch enables the experimental Evdev input backend which is required for GNOME Wayland support.

--enable-wayland-*: These switches enable experimental Wayland API in Clutter which is required for GNOME Wayland support.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libclutter-1.0.so and libclutter-glx-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/clutter-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{cally,clutter}

Short Descriptions

libclutter-1.0.so

contains the Clutter API functions.

Last updated on 2014-08-24 15:52:32 -0700