<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:34 -0700, David G wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>I have walked through building individual components one by one in</TT> <TT>attempt to learn what depends on what and have a much better grasp on</TT> <TT>some of the dependencies than I did a couple days ago however I am</TT> <TT>still lacking knowledge. What would be very helpful would be docs</TT> <TT>which explain each component so I can (hopefully) choose which is</TT> <TT>needed and which isn't.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Last week I wanted to have a minimally configured xserver for build related work. I did a brain dead job of compiling an xserver with the minimum packages possible. No idea if it actually works. This is the list of packages, in build order, that will compile, including their configuration options: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> util/macros font/util ./pixman proto/xproto proto/kbproto proto/xextproto proto/inputproto lib/libXau xcb/proto xcb/pthread-stubs xcb/libxcb lib/libxtrans lib/libX11 proto/bigreqsproto proto/damageproto proto/fixesproto proto/fontsproto proto/inputproto proto/kbproto proto/randrproto proto/renderproto proto/videoproto proto/xcmiscproto proto/xextproto proto/xproto lib/libxkbfile lib/libfontenc lib/libXfont --disable-freetype lib/libpciaccess ./xserver --disable-glx --disable-dri --disable-composite --disable-record --disable-screensaver --disable-xres --disable-xinerama </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> This was done on Ubuntu Jaunty on AMD64. There may be non xorg dependencies that are part of the distro that I am not aware of. You may also want to disable document generation using --disable-specs --disable-docs or --disable-devel-docs. You can export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/dev/null to ensure you do not link to dependencies you are not aware of. This is the list of pkg-config files that I ended-up with at the end of the build: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> bigreqsproto.pc damageproto.pc fixesproto.pc fontenc.pc fontsproto.pc fontutil.pc inputproto.pc kbproto.pc pciaccess.pc pixman-1.pc pthread-stubs.pc randrproto.pc renderproto.pc videoproto.pc x11.pc x11-xcb.pc xau.pc xcb-composite.pc xcb-damage.pc xcb-dpms.pc xcb-dri2.pc xcb-glx.pc xcb.pc xcb-proto.pc xcb-randr.pc xcb-record.pc xcb-render.pc xcb-res.pc xcb-screensaver.pc xcb-shape.pc xcb-shm.pc xcb-sync.pc xcb-xevie.pc xcb-xf86dri.pc xcb-xfixes.pc xcb-xinerama.pc xcb-xprint.pc xcb-xtest.pc xcb-xvmc.pc xcb-xv.pc xcmiscproto.pc xextproto.pc xfont.pc xkbfile.pc xorg-server.pc xproto.pc </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>