/** @page building_libinput libinput build instructions Instructions on how to build libinput and its tools and how to build against libinput. @section building Building libinput libinput uses automake, a build is usually the following three-step process @code $> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/libinput $> cd libinput $> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 $> make $> sudo make install @endcode @note On Debian-based distributions including Ubuntu and its derivatives skip the ```--libdir=/usr/lib64``` argument. A successful build requires the @ref building_dependencies to be installed at configure time. @subsection building_dependencies Build dependencies libinput has a few build-time dependencies that must be installed prior to running configure. In most cases, it is sufficient to install the dependencies that your distribution uses to build the libinput package. These can be installed with one of the following commands: If dependencies are missing, a message ```No package 'foo' found``` will be shown during the configure stage. See this blog post here. for instructions on how to fix it. @subsection building_libwacom Building without libwacom libwacom is required by libinput's tablet code to gather additional information about tablets that is not available from the kernel device itself. libwacom is required by default but can be skipped when @ref building with the ``--disable-libwacom`` argument. @code $> ./autogen.sh --disable-libwacom --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 @endcode Disabling libwacom is safe to do for environments where full tablet support is not required. Note that libinput provides tablet support even without libwacom, but some features may be missing or working differently. @subsection buildling_event-gui Building the graphical helper tool Only the commandline @ref tools are installed by distributions. The @ref event-gui graphical helper tools is only available in the source repository. The graphical helper tool is optional by default and requires extra libraries to build. If these libraries are not detected, the tool will not be built. If you need the tool for debugging purposes, use the ``--enable-event-gui`` argument when @ref building. @code $> ./autogen.sh --enable-event-gui --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 @endcode As usual, any missing library headers will then trigger an error and can be addressed one-by-one. @section building_against Building against libinput libinput provides a [pkg-config](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/) file. Software that uses libinput should use pkg-config and the `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` autoconf macro. Otherwise, the most rudimentary way to compile and link a program against libinput is: gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libinput` For further information on using pkgconfig see the pkg-config documentation. */