Xorg7/Protocol Headers

Download Source:	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/

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Introduction to Xorg7/Protocol Headers

There are thirty-two protocol headers. Note that the download source, above is the base URL. Each could be downloaded individually, but it is probably easiest to use wget and append either *.bz2 or *.gz to the base URL to pull them all down to your system.

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

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

Project Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/

Dependencies

Required

• pkg-config

There is no build order dependency for the protocols.

Non-Multilib

Install each protocol:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make install

Multilib

32Bit

Install each protocol:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG32 &&
make install

N32

Install each protocol:

./configure $XORG_CONFIGN32 &&
make install

64Bit

Install each protocol:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG64 &&
make install

Semi-Automated Build

Non Multilib

Install the protocol headers:

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

  cd $top || break;

  grep ^$packagedir$ done && continue;

  tar xvf $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
  make install &&

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

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

Multilib

Install the protocol headers:

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

  cd $top || break;

  grep ^$packagedir$ done && continue;

  tar xvf $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG32 &&
  make install &&

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

  tar xfv $package &&
  cd $packagedir &&

  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG64 &&
  make install &&

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

  echo "$packagedir" >> done
done
rm done

Next install the Utilities.

Contents

Each Xorg protocol installs one or more header (*.h) files. Rather than listing all of the files installed, a listing of the 32 protocol packages and a short description of each follows. The 32 protocol packages, listed in alphabetical order, with a short description are:

Xorg Protocol	Short Description
applewmproto	the AppleWM is the Apple rootless window management extension.
bigreqsproto	the "Big Requests" protocol.
compositeproto	the compositing protocol.
damageproto	the damage protocol is used to detect when the screen has been damaged (altered).
dmxproto	the DMX extension provides support for communication with and control of Xdmx (Distributed Multi-head X server) server.
evieext	this is the event interception extension protocol.
fixesproto	this protocol fixes the "damage" done to the screen.
fontcacheproto	this protocol is for X-TrueType font cache extension client library.
fontsproto	font rendering protocol.
glproto	protocol that defines the interface between the GL core and the surrounding "operating system" that supports it.
inputproto	input devices protocol.
kbproto	keyboard protocol.
printproto	printing protocol.
randrproto	this is the resize, rotate, and reflection protocol.
recordproto	.
renderproto	.
resourceproto	.
scrnsaverproto	this is the protocol for the screensaver.
trapproto	this is the event trapping protocol.
videoproto	this is the protocol for the video device.
windowswmproto	this is the WIN32 protocol.
xcmiscproto	.
xextproto	.
xf86bigfontproto	.
xf86dgaproto	the direct graphic access protocol.
xf86driproto	protocols for all the types and functions that define the interface between a DRI driver and driver loader.
xf86miscproto	.
xf86rushproto	.
xf86vidmodeproto	.
xineramaproto	.
xproto	this is the main X-Windows protocol.
xproxymanagementprotocol	.