Building and Installing Compiz 0.9.x
This is a preliminary 'rough' guide explaining how to compile and install 0.9.x to a non standard prefix. This assumes you are a developer, know exactly what you're doing or do not mind breaking your system.. Make sure your regular user has write access to the source directory (do not build the source as root). The dependency list is changing and will be added later. You will need at least cmake, boost devel and git packages installed. Refer to the dep list here to get an idea of what other packages might need to be installed.
Building Compiz 0.9.x
The 0.9.x development series (previously known as compiz++) is a drastic rework of compiz core and plugins. It also has a much changed buildsystem and hence it must be built in a specific way. We hope to have some kind of automated tool to do this in the future.
Core:
1. $ git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/compiz/core compiz (checkout core into compiz directory) 2. $ cd compiz 3. $ mkdir build (Building in the source directory is not supported) 4. $ cd build 5. $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=[where do you want compiz installed if not /usr/lib]
This last command will configure the build. There are also other build variables that can be set with -D[variable]=[...]. You can also use ccmake to get a more interactive configuration system.
Available Compiz cmake variables:
COMPIZ_DEFAULT_PLUGINS : default active plugin list (comma separated) that is added to the core xml/gconf schema file. COMPIZ_DISABLE_PLUGIN_[PLUGIN NAME] : set it to On to disable building of the plugin COMPIZ_INSTALL_GCONF_SCHEMA_DIR : directory where the gconf schema files should be installed USE_(GCONF|GNOME|GNOME_KEYBINDINGS|GTK|METACITY|KDE4) : set it to false to disable build of the specified feature
6. $ make (build) 7. $ [sudo] make install (install) 8. $ sudo make findcompiz_install
This installs the FindCompiz.cmake module into the cmake module directory. This does only to be done once, if we don't improve this module in the future
Plugins:
Currently all already ported plugins are in the compiz/plugins/* repositiores.
1. $ git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/compiz/plugins/[plugin] (Checkout a already ported plugin) 2. $ cd [plugin] 3. $ mkdir build 4. $ cd build
4.5 If you want, you can install the plugin globally. This is required for plugins that are used by other plugins:
$ export BUILD_GLOBAL=true cmake .. or cmake .. -DCOMPIZ_PLUGIN_INSTALL_TYPE="compiz"
INSTEAD of step 5. 4.7 If you are using a prefix other than /usr/local and have another compiz installation, you will need to do
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=[/path/to/prefix]
INSTEAD of step 5. Just add this argument if you are doing step 5.5 as well.
5. $ cmake .. (configure the plugin)
The plugin will be installed into you home directory unless you do step 4.5.
6. $ make 7. $ [sudo] -E make install
If you want to compile more plugins at once: 1. Repeat the steps 1-3 from above for each plugin
2. $ cp [your compiz checkout]/cmake/all_plugins_in_folder_example-CMakeLists.txt CMakeLists.txt (copy our all plugin cmake build file) 3. $ mkdir build (create a build directory for all plugins)
3.5 If you want, you can install the plugin globally. This is required for plugins that are used by other plugins:
$ export BUILD_GLOBAL=true cmake .. or cmake .. -DCOMPIZ_PLUGIN_INSTALL_TYPE="compiz"
INSTEAD of step 4. 3.7 If you are using a prefix other than /usr/local and have another compiz installation, you will need to do
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=[/path/to/prefix]
INSTEAD of step 4. Just add this argument if you are doing step 5.5 as well.
4. $ cmake .. 5. $ make 6. $ [sudo] make install
The install of the plugin may fail, if you have another version (0.8.x/0.7.x) of compiz installed. In this case pkg-config might pick the wrong compiz.pc file. There are several ways to fix this: 1. Delete the other compiz.pc (Do this only if you don't want to build any of the old compiz plugins/packages anymore) 2. Put the new compiz prefix before the old one into you PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable 3. If the new installation prefix is not already in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable you can use the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cmake variable also to build plugins.