Building the new sway 1.0 alpha from source

[AnukWolf]

Hey everyone!

First of all, I'm really really new to Gentoo, so pardon my missing experience
Coming from Arch to Gentoo to find a more thought-out, well made distro and I really like it so far.

On Arch, I had the newest 1.0 alpha 6 version of sway installed via AUR.
It worked really well and I'd like to replicate this setup on Gentoo as well, if possible.

I already informed myself a bit about ebuilds and how they're written, and to me it seems like,
since the newest sway-9999 in Gentoo reps isn't exactly pointing to the much newer v1.0-alpha6 source,
I'll have to write my own ebuilds for that.

For now, I also looked into what packages I can source straight from the stable/testing repositories, and which ones are still missing.
I'm running a Gentoo 17.0 amd64 install straight from the handbook, if that's of any interest.

swaywm/sway dependencies:

• dev-util/meson
  
• dev-libs/wayland
  
• dev-libs/libinput >= 1.6.0
  
• x11-libs/pango
  
• x11-libs/cairo
  
• x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf *
  
• sys-libs/pam **
  
• sys-apps/dbus >= 1.10 ***
  
• app-text/scdoc (requires ~amd64)
  
• sys-libs/libcap
  
  Not found:
  
• wlroots
  
• xwayland
  
• pcre
  
• json-c >= 0.13 (only found 0.12)
  

swaywm/wlroots dependencies:

• dev-util/meson
  
• dev-libs/wayland
  
• dev-libs/wayland-protocols
  
• x11-libs/libdrm
  
• dev-libs/libinput
  
• x11-libs/libxkbcommon
  
• sys-fs/udev
  
• x11-libs/pixman
  
• sys-apps/systemd or sys-auth/elogind (optional, for logind support)
  
• sys-libs/libcap (optional, for capability support)
  
  Not found/not sure:
  
• EGL
  
• GLESv2 (apparently EGL and GLESv2 are built into mesa?)
  
• GBM (also mesa?)
  

Doesn't look too bad to me. I just don't know where to find xwayland, pcre and the newer json-c from.

I'd like to seek help here on how to proceed, asking if it is possible and what's the best way to do it.
If it works well, of course I'd love to contribute something in the end and also have learned more about how everything works

Best regards, Anuk.
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[fedeliallalinea]

At first welcome to gentoo forum!

[AnukWolf]

First of all, thank you very much for the quick, and really helpful reply!
I created a local repository and wrote my first ebuild file,
hope it's not too bad

[AnukWolf]

Almost there!
wlroots requires a

[Hu]

[Edit: when I began writing, the last line quoted from AnukWolf in my post was the last line in his post. His discovery of sandbox rules was edited in while I was composing.]

You may be able to delegate some of this work to helper functions from an eclass. I am not familiar with meson, so I cannot say what helpers are available for this tool. Read /usr/portage/eclass/meson.eclass to see what is provided, and inherit meson if you want to make it available in your ebuild.

[AnukWolf]

[fedeliallalinea]

[AnukWolf]

Hey everyone. I made really good progress, but a new strange problem came up.
I implemented a sway ebuild and a wlroots ebuild.

Emerged them successfully, but when running sway it just froze the display. Everything else is still working, I can do stuff via ssh,
I can push the power button (acpi scripts) but I can't use the display anymore, not even switch ttys (I guess I can but the display doesnt show it).
Reconnecting doesn't help either.

This sounds like a hardware or kernel config issue at first, however, I upgraded the kernel to 4.18, and enabled all flags needed for AMDGPU to work.
Then I emerged weston (the reference wayland compositor) and it works beautifully (although XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isnt set but thats easy).

I also tried running glxinfo on weston but it doesnt find a display.
I heard that sway needs OpenGLES, however weston can run with the pixman renderer.
I'm starting to think that its an OpenGL issue here, perhaps due to missing dependencies (or wrong use flags).

I'll try to re-emerge mesa and closely look at its output, I might be able to find something.

Best regards, Anuk
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Running default/linux/amd64/17.0 (stable) on
Xeon E3 1230v3, MSI H87-G43 Gaming, 16GB DDR3-1600, ASUS R9 280X DC2T, ASUS Xonar DX Soundcard

[josephg]

When I last tried sway, I did an emerge sway and it pulled in all the required dependencies prompting me for useflags where required. It might help if you install sway from the gentoo repo, even if you don't want to use that version. That process itself might resolve your dependency issues. Once you have sway working from the repo, you could upgrade to the latest bleeding edge hopefully working as all dependencies are already installed.
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[Hu]