Since the Meson install step is not written to try to set the suid bit
automatically, remind the user that weston-launch needs to be
setuid-root to work.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Helps people avoid wayland-egl if they don't want it.
Makes the check for wayland-egl explicit on the site instead of relying
on gl-renderer checking for it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Helps people to avoid EGL and GLESv2 if they do not want them.
Stops using dep_egl and dep_glesv2 so that the human friendly error
message is alongside the dependency() statement, so that the message and
the statement can later be merged together once Meson offers the custom
error messages feature or something even more sophisticated.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Meson is a build system, currently implemented in Python, with multiple
output backends, including Ninja and Make. The build file syntax is
clean and easy to read unlike autotools. In practise, configuring and
building with Meson and Ninja has been observed to be much faster than
with autotools. Also cross-building support is excellent.
More information at http://mesonbuild.com
Since moving to Meson requires some changes from users in any case, we
took this opportunity to revamp build options. Most of the build options
still exist, some have changed names or more, and a few have been
dropped. The option to choose the Cairo flavour is not implemented since
for the longest time the Cairo image backend has been the only
recommended one.
This Meson build should be fully functional and it installs everything
an all-enabled autotools build does. Installed pkg-config files have
some minor differences that should be insignificant. Building of some
developer documentation that was never installed with autotools is
missing.
It is expected that the autotools build system will be removed soon
after the next Weston release.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Co-authored-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Pekka Paalanen
Scott Anderson
Daniel Stone