Simple SHM Wayland Client

[Marek Chalupa]

Hi,

try to look at weston/tests/weston-test-client-helpers.c on the function
client_create(). That could be the piece of code your'e looking for.

Regards,
Marek


On 28 May 2014 17:24, Philip Rushik <prushik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am trying to build a simple Wayland client, just sort of a "hello world"
> type deal right now. I want to avoid any OpenGL or external dependencies
> other than libwayland-client itself.
> All I want to do is be able to tell wayland to create a window, get myself
> a framebuffer which I can write to, and have wayland display it.
> So I think what I want is to use wayland with shm. I realize there is an
> example of this in the weston source code, and I have been studying it
> quite a lot as it seems to be the only example of a client using shm
> available. However, I have a few issues with the example, it seems to use
> functions that are not included in libwayland-client but instead part of
> the weston source tree. Due to this, I have not even been able to compile
> it successfully without compiling all of weston.
> I tried writing my own program, and after a night of not sleeping and
> wishing I could but debugging code the whole time, I got myself a program
> that doesn't crash, but also doesn't display anything at all. I used the
> example code in the weston source for reference, but I replaced or ignored
> the parts which seemed to be using non-libwayland-client function. I used
> shm_open instead of os_create_anonymous_file.
>
> If somebody would be willing to lend a hand that would be great. My code
> is about 150 SLOC at the moment, but I don't know if you would be happy
> with me posting it all to the mailing list.
> Also, if you know of any other examples of using wayland and shm that you
> could point me to, that would be great.
>
> Thanks
> --Philip
>
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