How to build X on DSL ?
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: How to build X on DSL ?
started by: blogananda
Posted by blogananda on May 19 2008,20:35
Hi,I guess Iam asking for too much :-)
Iam trying to build "libXcursor" on DSL4 (with kernel 2.4.35 which i built)
# tar xvf libXcursor-1.1.9.tar
# cd libXcursor-1.1.9
# ./configure
.....
checking for XCURSOR... configure: error: Package requirements (xrender >= 0.8.2 xfixes x11 fixesproto) were not met.
.....
Can anyone advice me how easy/hard it is to build the following :
- xrender
- xfixes
- x11
- fixesproto
I believe building X11 would be the hardest one.
Any suggestions where I should start,in building "libXcursor" successfully ?
thanks in advance.
Swami Blogananda
Posted by lucky13 on May 19 2008,21:21
Are all the xfree/xorg extensions insufficient for what you want?
Posted by Juanito on May 20 2008,03:30
From what I remember when compiling xorg72, x11 was dependent on +/-20-30 source packages and about the only way to know which ones was to start with x11 and work backwards...
Posted by curaga on May 20 2008,14:24
I recommend following the advice in < BLFS >. It is for X.org 7.2, so if you happen to want that version, using their well-thought ordered-by-dependencies wget lists will make your life easier.In case you ask why 7.2, the reason is that 7.3 was a rushed low quality release, in which even all drivers didn't build and people had various problems that could've been spotted before release.
Posted by Juanito on May 20 2008,14:48
Nice link - would be that I'd seen that before embarking on the xorg72 odessy...
Posted by curaga on May 20 2008,15:35
Yeah, sorry, I thought about telling you but you were already a knee deep and seemed to know exactly what you were doing, so I didn't think you needed it 
Posted by stupid_idiot on May 25 2008,03:09
Deps:libX11: inputproto, kbproto, libXau, libXdmcp, xextproto, xproto, xtrans
libXau: xproto
libXcursor: fixesproto libX11 libXfixes libXrender
libXdmcp: libXau, xextproto, xproto
libXfixes: fixesproto, libX11
libXrender: libX11, renderproto
Order:
01. < fixesproto > < inputproto > < kbproto > < renderproto > < xextproto > < xproto > < xtrans >
02. < libXau >
03. < libXdmcp >
04. < libX11 >
05. < libXfixes >
06. < libXrender >
07. < libXcursor >
Posted by blogananda on June 03 2008,06:48
Hi,Thanks everyone for replying to my query on building X11. Here are the steps that worked for me. I was able to build it on a version of DSL4.0 that I remastered, but replaced the kernel with kernel 2.4.35. I have added instructions that are pre-requisites. Hope this helps.
thanks,
Ananda Kammampati
/*****
*
* XFree86
*
*****
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s g++ c++
# cd /home/dsl
# wget < http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/ed/ed_0.2.orig.tar.gz >
# tar zxvf ed_0.2.orig.tar.gz
# cd ed-0.2/
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
# cd /home/dsl
# mkdir XFree86
# cd XFree86
# wget < ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.7.0/source/XFree86-4.7.0-src-1.tgz >
# wget < ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.7.0/source/XFree86-4.7.0-src-2.tgz >
# wget < ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.7.0/source/XFree86-4.7.0-src-3.tgz >
# gzip -d < XFree86-4.7.0-src-1.tgz | tar vxf -
# gzip -d < XFree86-4.7.0-src-2.tgz | tar vxf -
# gzip -d < XFree86-4.7.0-src-3.tgz | tar vxf -
# cp xc/config/cf/xf86site.def xc/config/cf/host.def
# vi xc/config/cf/host.def
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#define BuildFonts NO
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# mkdir build
# cd build
# lndir ../xc
# make World
# mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-orig
# make install
# ls -lR /usr/X11R6 | wc -l
1842
# make VerifyOS
----------------------------------------------------
make -f xmakefile VerifyOS
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dsl/XFree86/build'
Building XFree86 version 4.7.0 (12 August 2007).
Building on Linux 2.4.35 i686 [ELF] (2.4.35)
Linux Distribution: Debian
libc version: 6.3.2
binutils version: 21.5
GCC version: 3.3
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dsl/XFree86/build'
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Posted by humpty on June 04 2008,14:14
thanks blogananda for that.
Posted by WDef on June 07 2008,12:25
Cool. Thanks for documenting this.
Posted by chaostic on June 07 2008,13:53
How big is this compared to the standard X libs in dsl 4 (In kb)?Can this be used to build super tiny 1 video card only X server (Like the accelerated x-servers in the mydsl repository, but for cards that don't have an accelerated x-server)?
And is recompiling to a newer kernel necessary?
And good work btw
Posted by curaga on June 07 2008,14:22
Creating a tinyX server of your own is not easy. C skills and X familiarity needed. Also all the accelerated tinyX servers came with X, none were created by me.You don't need a new kernel to use newer X.