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<h1 id="installation-guide">Installation guide</h1>
<p>This guide explains how to install rofi using its build system and how you can
make debug builds.</p>
<p>Rofi uses autotools (GNU Build system), for more information see
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Autotools-Introduction.html">here</a>.
You can also use <a href="https://mesonbuild.com/">Meson</a> as an alternative.</p>
<h2 id="dependency">DEPENDENCY</h2>
<h3 id="for-building">For building</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>C compiler that supports the c99 standard. (gcc or clang)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>make</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>autoconf</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>automake (1.11.3 or up)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>pkg-config</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>flex 2.5.39 or higher</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>bison</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>check (Can be disabled using the <code>--disable-check</code> configure flag)
check is used for build-time tests and does not affect functionality.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Developer packages of the external libraries</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>glib-compile-resources</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="external-libraries">External libraries</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>libpango &gt;= 1.50</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libpangocairo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libcairo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libcairo-xcb</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libglib2.0 &gt;= 2.72</p>
<ul>
<li>gmodule-2.0</li>
<li>gio-unix-2.0</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>libgdk-pixbuf-2.0</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libstartup-notification-1.0</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libxkbcommon &gt;= 0.4.1</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libxkbcommon-x11</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libxcb (sometimes split, you need libxcb, libxcb-xkb and libxcb-randr
libxcb-xinerama)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>xcb-util</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>xcb-util-wm (sometimes split as libxcb-ewmh and libxcb-icccm)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>xcb-util-cursor</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>xcb-imdkit (optional, 1.0.3 or up preferred)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>On debian based systems, the developer packages are in the form of:
<code>&lt;package&gt;-dev</code> on rpm based <code>&lt;package&gt;-devel</code>.</p>
<h2 id="install-from-a-release">Install from a release</h2>
<p>When downloading from the github release page, make sure to grab the archive
<code>rofi-{version}.tar.[g|x]z</code>. The auto-attached files <code>source code (zip|tar.gz)</code>
by github do not contain a valid release. It misses a setup build system and
includes irrelevant files.</p>
<h3 id="autotools">Autotools</h3>
<p>Create a build directory and enter it:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> mkdir build &amp;&amp; cd build
</code></pre>
<p>Check dependencies and configure build system:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> ../configure
</code></pre>
<p>Build Rofi:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> make
</code></pre>
<p>The actual install, execute as root (if needed):</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> make install
</code></pre>
<p>The default installation prefix is: <code>/usr/local/</code> use <code>./configure
--prefix={prefix}</code> to install into another location.</p>
<h3 id="meson">Meson</h3>
<p>Check dependencies and configure build system:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> meson setup build
</code></pre>
<p>Build Rofi:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> ninja -C build
</code></pre>
<p>The actual install, execute as root (if needed):</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> ninja -C build install
</code></pre>
<p>The default installation prefix is: <code>/usr/local/</code> use <code>meson setup build
--prefix={prefix}</code> to install into another location.</p>
<h2 id="install-a-checkout-from-git">Install a checkout from git</h2>
<p>The GitHub Pages version of these directions may be out of date. Please use
<a href="https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi/blob/master/INSTALL.md#install-a-checkout-from-git">INSTALL.md from the online repo</a> or your local repository.</p>
<p>If you don't have a checkout:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> git clone --recursive https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi
cd rofi/
</code></pre>
<p>If you already have a checkout:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> cd rofi/
git pull
git submodule update --init
</code></pre>
<p>For Autotools you have an extra step, to generate build system:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> autoreconf -i
</code></pre>
<p>From this point, use the same steps you use for a release.</p>
<h2 id="options-for-configure">Options for configure</h2>
<p>When you run the configure step there are several options you can configure.</p>
<p>For Autotools, you can see the full list with <code>./configure --help</code>.</p>
<p>For Meson, before the initial setup, you can see rofi options in
<code>meson_options.txt</code> and Meson options with <code>meson setup --help</code>. Meson's
built-in options can be set using regular command line arguments, like so:
<code>meson setup build --option=value</code>. Rofi-specific options can be set using the
<code>-D</code> argument, like so: <code>meson setup build -Doption=value</code>. After the build dir
is set up by <code>meson setup build</code>, the <code>meson configure build</code> command can be
used to configure options, by the same means.</p>
<p>The most useful one to set is the installation prefix:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
../configure --prefix=&lt;installation path&gt;
# Meson
meson setup build --prefix &lt;installation path&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>f.e.</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
../configure --prefix=/usr/
# Meson
meson setup build --prefix /usr
</code></pre>
<h3 id="install-locally">Install locally</h3>
<p>or to install locally:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
../configure --prefix=${HOME}/.local/
# Meson
meson setup build --prefix ${HOME}/.local
</code></pre>
<h2 id="options-for-make">Options for make</h2>
<p>When you run make you can tweak the build process a little.</p>
<h3 id="verbose-output">Verbose output</h3>
<p>Show the commands called:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
make V=1
# Meson
ninja -C build -v
</code></pre>
<h3 id="debug-build">Debug build</h3>
<p>Compile with debug symbols and no optimization, this is useful for making
backtraces:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
make CFLAGS=&quot;-O0 -g3&quot; clean rofi
# Meson
meson configure build --debug
ninja -C build
</code></pre>
<h3 id="get-a-backtrace">Get a backtrace</h3>
<p>Getting a backtrace using GDB is not very handy. Because if rofi get stuck, it
grabs keyboard and mouse. So if it crashes in GDB you are stuck. The best way
to go is to enable core file. (ulimit -c unlimited in bash) then make rofi
crash. You can then load the core in GDB.</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> # Autotools
gdb rofi core
# Meson (because it uses a separate build directory)
gdb build/rofi core
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
<p>Where the core file is located and what its exact name is different on each
distributions. Please consult the relevant documentation.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>For more information see the rofi-debugging(5) manpage.</p>
<h2 id="install-distribution">Install distribution</h2>
<h3 id="debian-or-ubuntu">Debian or Ubuntu</h3>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> apt install rofi
</code></pre>
<h3 id="fedora">Fedora</h3>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> dnf install rofi
</code></pre>
<h3 id="archlinux">ArchLinux</h3>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> pacman -S rofi
</code></pre>
<h3 id="gentoo">Gentoo</h3>
<p>An ebuild is available, <code>x11-misc/rofi</code>. It's up to date, but you may need to
enable ~arch to get the latest release:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> echo 'x11-misc/rofi ~amd64' &gt;&gt; /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
</code></pre>
<p>for amd64 or:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> echo 'x11-misc/rofi ~x86' &gt;&gt; /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
</code></pre>
<p>for i386.</p>
<p>To install it, simply issue <code>emerge rofi</code>.</p>
<h3 id="opensuse">openSUSE</h3>
<p>On both openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed rofi can be installed using:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> sudo zypper install rofi
</code></pre>
<h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> sudo pkg install rofi
</code></pre>
<h3 id="macos">macOS</h3>
<p>On macOS rofi can be installed via <a href="https://www.macports.org">MacPorts</a>:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"> sudo port install rofi
</code></pre>
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