Using libweston with GTK/GDK

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 03 May 2019 05:40:46 +0100
adlo <adloconwy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 12:34 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > 
> > it is all just the normal Wayland protocol exchange but with a new
> > interface of your own design. I'm not sure if there is a really
> > minimal example, but I'll list at least some.
> > 
> > One example of such private protocol extension is
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/blob/master/protocol/weston-desktop-shell.xml
> > 
> >   
> 
> autotools doesn't seem to be generating the header files. I've put 
> 
> AC_ARG_VAR([wayland_scanner], [The wayland-scanner executable])
> AC_PATH_PROG([wayland_scanner], [wayland-scanner])
> if test x$wayland_scanner = x; then
>         if test "x$cross_compiling" != "xyes"; then
>                 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(WAYLAND_SCANNER, [wayland-scanner])
>                 wayland_scanner=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=wayland_scanner 
> wayland-scanner`
>         else
>                 AC_MSG_WARN([You are cross compiling without wayland-
> scanner in your path.  make check will fail.])
>         fi
> fi
> 
> in my configure.ac.in. What else do I need to do?

Hi,

your Makefile.am needs the rules to generate the headers and .c files.

> 
> In the meantime, I worked around it by running wayland-scanner and
> manually generating the header files, but when trying to do this:
> 
> static const struct xyz_interface xyz_implementation =
> {
> 
> };
> 
> .......
> 
>   wl_global_create (server->compositor->wl_display,
>                     &xyz_interface, 1,
>                     server, bind_desktop_shell);
> 
> the compiler gave me messages like "xyz_implementation has initializer
> but incomplete type" and "storage size of xyz_implementation isn't
> known" How can I resolve this?

Make sure you generate server-side headers for server side code, and
client-side headers for client side code, and include the appropriate
one.

> Also, what's the best way to include my private protocol's header
> files, being as my code is in $(topdir)/src and the protocol headers
> are in $(topdir)/protocols?

Whatever you prefer.


Thanks,
pq
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