rofi/INSTALL.md

Installation guide

DEPENDENCY

For building:

• C compiler that supports the c99 standard. (gcc or clang)
• make
• autoconf
• automake

External libraries

• libxinerama
• libxft
• libpango
• libx11
• libxdg-basedir

Optional:

• For i3 support, you need at least i3 version 4.5 or up.

Install from a release

Check dependencies and configure build system:

./configure

Build Rofi:

make

The actual install, execute as root (if needed):

make install

Install a checkout from git

Generate build system:

autoreconf -i

Create a build directory:

mkdir build

Check dependencies and configure build system:

../configure

Build rofi:

make

The actual install, execute as root (if needed):

make install

Options for configure

When you run the configure step there are several you can configure. (To see the full list type ./configure --help ).

The most useful one to set the installation prefix:

./configure --prefix=<installation path>

f.e.

./configure --prefix=/usr/

Install locally

or to install locally:

./configure --prefix=${HOME}/.local/

I3 workaround

If i3 is installed in a non-standard prefix, point it to the right location using:

CFLAGS="-I/weird/i3/path/include/" ../configure
CFLAGS="-I/weird/i3/path/include/" make