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kbmonkey

#! Junkie

From: South Africa

Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 458

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Building spectrwm 2.0

Hello there, I thought a how-to and support thread to build spectrwm 2.0+, announced 22nd Aug 2012, would be useful.

It would be neat if the process can be put into a script to semi/fully automate building from source. But so far I found some tweaking was required.

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install "^libxcb*..*-dev$" libx11-xcb-dev libxrandr-dev libxft-dev libxt-dev

There is a missing libxcb-utils which I simply cannot find in the repos. One work around is to use a modified Makefile, alternatively install libxcb-utils from source. I detailed both these steps here.

Build from the "spectrwm/linux" directory with "make".

I'm not guru at building from source, so I'd love to hear if I could have done any of this better.

Cheers

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pidsley

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 1,348

Re: Building spectrwm 2.0

It looks like libxcb-util0 is in wheezy and sid, but not squeeze.

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite … s=xcb-util

A few people on the Arch board have built Spectrwm2.0, without much success (it segfaults). Do you have it running?

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gutterslob

#! Resident Bum

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 2,642

Re: Building spectrwm 2.0

^ Some of those issues have been resolved in the git versions, I believe.
See here and here.

Latest git build is installed and running fine on my OpenBSD (Current) desktop.
Haven't yet built it on the netbook (Debian/GRML Unstable) as I prefer waiting for stable snapshots on that particular setup.

Last edited by gutterslob (2012-08-25 12:20:32)

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kbmonkey

#! Junkie

From: South Africa

Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 458

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Re: Building spectrwm 2.0

Thanks gutterslob. No I have not set it as my active WM yet pidsley, after updating to latest from git, the build fails once again. Thanks for pointing out the package-distro correlation.

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PackRat

#! Die Hard

From: USA

Registered: 2011-03-03

Posts: 736

Re: Building spectrwm 2.0

I built the git version on debian testing yesterday. Running fine so far.

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h8uthemost

#! Junkie

Registered: 2011-08-09

Posts: 286

Re: Building spectrwm 2.0

Ugh...what a hassle just to update on squeeze. Maybe I'll just stick with 1.0, it's working fine I guess.

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