Xorg7/Libraries

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Introduction to Xorg7/Libraries

There are 47 libraries. Similar to the protocols, using wget and appending a *.bz2 or *.gz to the base URL above is probably the most efficient way to get the tarballs on your system.

Alternately, if you chose to use subdirectories, the tarballs can be retrieved as follows. This will prevent multiple versions from being downloaded when multiple versions exist.

wget https://cblfs.clfs.org/Special:Filepath/Lib-20101205.wget &&
mkdir -p lib &&
cd lib &&
wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/ -i ../Lib-20101205.wget

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Dependencies

The X.org libraries require their respective protocols to be installed first. Although not necessary, it is recommended that all of the protocol headers are installed before the libraries.

There are some dependency orders in the libraries. xtrans, Xau, Xdmcp must be installed before anything else. libXext must be installed before any other extension library. The wget file above lists the libraries in the proper build order. Additional, non-Xorg, dependencies are listed below for those libraries that require them..

Xorg Library	Required	Recommended	Optional
libX11		XCB
libXaw	ed
libXfont	FreeType
libXft	FreeType, FontConfig
libpciaccess	PCI Utilities
pixman			Gtk2

Configuration Information

Besides the 'standard' optional features, the following libraries have additional optional features that you may wish to enable or disable.

libXau	--disable-xthreads	disable libXau support for multithreading.
libX11	--enable-secure-rpc	enable secure RPC.
	--enable-loadable-i18n	controls loadable i18n module support.
	--disable-loadable-xcursor	controls loadable xcursor library support.
	--disable-xthreads	disable Xlib support for multithreading.
	--disable-xcms	disable Xlib support for CMS (EXPERIMENTAL)
	--disable-xlocale	disable Xlib locale implementation (EXPERIMENTAL)
	--enable-xlocaledir	enable XLOCALEDIR environment variable support.
	--disable-xf86bigfont	disable XF86BigFont extension support.
	--disable-xkb	disable XKB support (EXPERIMENTAL)
libFS	--enable-tcp-transport	enable TCP socket transport.
	--enable-IPv6	enable IPv6 support.
libICE	--enable-tcp-transport	enable TCP socket transport.
	--enable-IPv6	enable IPv6 support.
libSM	--enable-tcp-transport	enable TCP socket transport.
	--enable-IPv6	enable IPv6 support.
libXt	--disable-xkb	disable XKB support.
	--disable-install-makestrs	disable installing makestrs.
libXmu	--enable-tcp-transport	enable TCP socket transport.
	--enable-IPv6	enable IPv6 support.
libXpm	--enable-stat-zfile	don't search for files with .Z & .gz extensions automatically.
libXaw	--disable-xaw6	disable building of libXaw.so.6
	--disable-xaw7	disable building of libXaw.so.7
	--disable-xaw8	disable building of libXaw.so.8
libXcursor	--with-icondir=<path>	set default icon directory (default: ${datadir}/icons).
	--with-cursorpath=<paths>	set default search path for cursors.
libXfont	--disable-freetype	disable freetype support.
	--enable-type1	enable type1 font support.
	--disable-speedo	disable speedo font support.
	--disable-pcfformat
	--disable-bdfformat	disable pcf, bdf, or snf font format.
	--disable-snfformat
	--enable-tcp-transport	enable TCP socket transport.
	--enable-IPv6	enable IPv6 support.

Non-Multilib

Compile each library as follows:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

Install each library as follows:

make install

Note

After installing all of the libraries run ldconfig.

Multilib

Note

On my system (AMD64) at least, xtrans installs it's pkg-config file to '$XORG_PREFX/share/pkg-config/' instead of '$XORG_PREFIX/lib{,64}/pkgconfig'. Moving the 'xtrans.pc' file to the correct location fixed some later errors.

32Bit

Compile the library.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" \
./configure $XORG_CONFIG32 &&
make

Install the library.

make install

For libXft

mv ${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config{,-32}

N32

Compile the library.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" \
./configure $XORG_CONFIGN32 &&
make

Install the library.

make install

For libXFt

mv ${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config{,-n32}

64Bit

Compile the library.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \
./configure $XORG_CONFIG64 &&
make

Install the library.

make install

For libXFt

mv ${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config{,-64} &&
ln -sv /usr/bin/multiarch_wrapper ${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config

Note

After installing all of the libraries run ldconfig.

Semi-Automated Build

These automated build instructions assume that you are using subdirectories as discussed in the introduction. You must also have an unaltered copy of Lib-20101205.wget in the main working directory (xc). This file lists each library in an order that ensures dependencies are satisfied.

Non Multilib

Install the Xorg libraries:

top=$PWD
cat ../Lib-20101205.wget | while read package; do
  packagedir=$(sed -e "s/\.tar\.bz2//" <<< $package)

  cd $top || break;

  grep ^$packagedir$ done && continue;

  tar xvf $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
  make &&
  make install &&

  cd .. &&
  rm -rfv $packagedir &&

  echo "$packagedir" >> done || break
done
rm done
ldconfig

Multilib

Install the Xorg libraries:

top=$PWD
cat ../Lib-20101205.wget | while read package; do
  packagedir=$(sed -e "s/\.tar\.bz2//" <<< $package)

  cd $top || break;

  grep ^$packagedir$ done && continue;

  tar xvf $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" \
  CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" \
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG32 &&
  make &&
  make install || break

  if [ -f "${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config" ]; then
    mv "${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config"{,-32} || break
  fi

  cd .. &&
  rm -rfv $packagedir &&

  tar xfv $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
  CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG64 &&
  make &&
  make install || break

  if [ -f "${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config" ]; then
    mv "${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config"{,-64} || break
  fi

  cd .. &&
  rm -rfv $packagedir || break

  echo "$packagedir" >> done
done
ln -sv /usr/bin/multiarch_wrapper ${XORG_PREFIX}/bin/xft-config 
rm done
ldconfig

Next install libdrm

Contents

Each Xorg library installs one or more set of libraries (*.so,la,a) files. Rather than listing all of the files installed, a listing of the 47 library packages and a short description of each follows. The 47 library packages, listed in build order, with a short description are:

Xorg Library	Short Description
xtrans	Transport (protocol) table. Contains a definition for every transport (protocol) family. All operations that can be made on the transport go through this table.
libXau	The main interface to the X11 authorization handling, which controls authorization for X connections, both client-side and server-side.
libXdmcp	The main interface to the X11 display manager control protocol library, which allows for remote logins to display managers.
libX11	The main client interface to the X Window System and is otherwise known as 'Xlib'. It provides a complete API for the basic functions of the window system.
libXext	Provides an X Window System client interface to several extensions to the X protocol. libXext also provides a small set of utility functions to aid authors of client APIs for X protocol extensions.
libAppleWM
libWindowsWM
libdmx	The interface to the DMX extension for X, which allows a single server to be set up as a proxy spanning multiple servers -- not unlike Xinerama across discrete physical machines. It can be reconfigured on the fly to change the layout, and it is presented as a single logical display to clients. libdmx allows clients to configure the layout of DMX servers by adding and removing screens, input devices, et al.
libfontenc	The font encodings library.
libFS	Provides various functions useful to X11 font servers, and clients connecting to font servers. It is not used outside of these implementations.
libICE	The inter-client exchange library.
liblbxutil	Contains header files and documentation for the XFIXES extension.
liboldX	Association table libraries.
libSM	Provides the main interface to the X11 Session Management library, which allows for applications to both manage sessions, and make use of session managers to save and restore their state for later use.
libXt	Provides the X Toolkit Intrinsics, an abstract widget library upon which other toolkits are based. Xt is the basis for many toolkits, including the Athena widgets (Xaw), and LessTif (a Motif implementation).
libXmu	Provides a set of miscellaneous utility convenience functions for X libraries to use.
libXpm	Provides support and common operation for the XPM pixmap format, which is commonly used in legacy X applications. XPM is an extension of the monochrome XBM bitmap specified in the X protocol.
libXp	Provides public APIs to allow client applications to render to non-display devices, making use of the X Print Service.
libXaw	Provides the original version of Xaw, the Athena Widgets tookit, which is largely used by legacy X applications. Within the Xaw series, version 6 is itself considered deprecated; version 7 is in most common usage. In general, use of a more modern toolkit such as GTK+ is recommended.
libXfixes	Provides an X Window System client interface to the 'XFIXES' extension to the X protocol. It provides support for Region types, and some cursor functions.
libXcomposite	Provides an X Window System client interface to the Composite extension to the X protocol. The Composite extension allows clients called compositing managers to control the final drawing of the screen. Rendering is done into an off-screen buffer.
libXrender	The X Rendering Extension (Render) introduces digital image composition as the foundation of a new rendering model within the X Window System. Rendering geometric figures is accomplished by client-side tesselation into either triangles or trapezoids. Text is drawn by loading glyphs into the server and rendering sets of them. The Xrender library exposes this extension to X clients. This package provides a static library and C header files.
libXdamage	Provides an X Window System client interface to the DAMAGE extension to the X protocol. The Damage extension provides for notification of when on-screen regions have been 'damaged' (altered).
libXcursor	The header files and a static version of the X cursor management library are provided by this package.
libXevie	Provides an X Window System client interface to the EvIE extension to the X protocol. The EvIE (Event Interception Extension) allows for clients to be able to intercept all events coming through the server and then decide what to do with them, including being able to modify or discard events.
libXfont	Libraries for different font types.
libXfontcache
libXft	Provides a client-side font API for X applications, making the FreeType font rasterizer available to X clients. Fontconfig is used for font specification resolution. Where available, the RENDER extension handles glyph drawing; otherwise, the core X protocol is used.
libXi	Provides an X Window System client interface to the XINPUT extension to the X protocol. The Input extension allows setup and configuration of multiple input devices, and will soon allow hotplugging of input devices; to be added and removed on the fly.
libXinerama	Provides an X Window System client interface to the XINERAMA extension to the X protocol. The Xinerama (also known as panoramiX) extension allows for multiple screens attached to a single display to be treated as belonging together, and to give desktop applications a better idea of the monitor layout. Required for dual monitor support.
libxkbfile	Provides an interface to read and manipulate description files for XKB, the X11 keyboard configuration extension.
libxkbui	Provides an interface to easily present XKB layouts as graphical widgets.
libXprintUtil	Provides utility Xpu APIs allowing client applications to access and manipulate information about printer capabilities from an Xprint server.
libXprintAppUtil	Provides utility Xpau APIs allowing client applications to access information about and control Xprint jobs from an Xprint server.
libXrandr	Provides an X Window System client interface to the RandR extension to the X protocol. The RandR extension allows for run-time configuration of display attributes such as resolution, rotation, and reflection.
libXres	Provides an X Window System client interface to the Resource extension to the X protocol. The Resource extension allows for X clients to see and monitor the X resource usage of various clients (pixmaps, et al).
libXScrnSaver
libXTrap	Provides an interface to the DEC-XTRAP extension, which allows for capture and synthesis of core input events.
libXtst	Provides an X Window System client interface to the Record extension to the X protocol. The Record extension allows X clients to synthesise input events, which is useful for automated testing.
libXv	Provides an X Window System client interface to the XVideo extension to the X protocol. The XVideo extension allows for accelerated drawing of videos. Hardware adaptors are exposed to clients, which may draw in a number of colourspaces, including YUV.
libXvMC	Provides an X Window System client interface to the XVideo-MotionCompensation extension to the X protocol. The XVideo-MotionCompensation extension allows for further accelerated drawing of videos. Video data may be sent at earlier stages of the decoding pipeline than raw YUV data.
libXxf86dga	Provides the XFree86-DGA extension, which allows direct graphics access to a framebuffer-like region, and also allows relative mouse reporting, et al. It is mainly used by games and emulators for games.
libXxf86misc	Provides an interface to the XFree86-Misc extension, which allows client applications to query the current keyboard and mouse settings of the running XFree86-based (XFree86, Xorg) server.
libXxf86vm	Provides an interface to the XFree86-VidModeExtension extension, which allows client applications to get and set video mode timings in extensive detail. It is used by the xvidtune program in particular.