Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2015-03-06-multilib

Chapter 24. X Window System Environment

libxcb-1.11

Introduction to libxcb

The libxcb package provides an interface to the X Window System protocol, which replaces the current Xlib interface. Xlib can also use XCB as a transport layer, allowing software to make requests and receive responses with both.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.11.tar.bz2

  • Download MD5 sum: 5a873ebd383d1a60612dd6ec6b42c781

  • Download size: 506 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 41 MB (124 MB with doxygen generated documentation)

  • Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.1 to generate API documentation)

libxcb Dependencies

Required

libXau-1.0.8 and xcb-proto-1.11

Recommended

libXdmcp-1.1.1

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.9.1 (to generate API documentation) Check-0.9.14 (to run tests) and libxslt-1.1.28

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

Installation of libxcb

Install libxcb by running the following commands: 

sed -i "s/pthread-stubs//" configure &&

./configure $XORG_CONFIG    \
            --enable-xinput \
            --docdir='${datadir}'/doc/libxcb-1.11 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

sed "s/pthread-stubs//" -i configure: This sed removes dependency on libpthread-stubs package which is useless on Linux.

--enable-xinput: This switch enables XCB Xinput extension.

--without-doxygen: This switch can be used to disable the API documentation if Doxygen-1.8.9.1 is installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libxcb.so and libxcb-*.so
Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/include/xcb and $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libxcb-1.11

Short Descriptions

libxcb.so

is an interface to the X Window System protocol.

Last updated on 2015-02-21 23:09:10 -0500