[Mesa-users] configure: error: libudev-dev or sysfs required for building DRI

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Thu Mar 5 07:54:12 PST 2015


On 03/05/2015 08:35 AM, Sam M wrote:
> I'm trying to install VMware guest GL driver on CentOS 6.5 but with no luck.
>
> Building the Code for Mesa
>
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
> --with-gallium-drivers=svga --with-dri-drivers= --enable-xa --disable-dri3
>
> I get the following error "configure: error: libudev-dev or sysfs
> required for building DRI"

Check that libsysfs is installed.  Install if with yum if missing.



> Has anyone got VMware SVGA3D guest driver installed on CentOS 6.5 or 6.6?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.

I haven't tried CentOS, but when I tried installing on RHEL 7 I had a 
lot of problems and haven't had time to investigate yet.

-Brian




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