[i3] Compiling from Source

  • From: Kevin Murphy <kemurphy.cmu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager" <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:06 -0700

Perhaps libconfuse-dev is what you need? ;)

Remember, you'll likely need the "-dev" versions of all of i3's
dependencies to compile it from source.

-Kevin

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:29 PM, BRAGA, Bruno <bruno.braga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry if this topic has been discussed here already (did not find it).
I am interest in knowing a bit more about compiling i3wm from source, and
running my own version... but I am having some small problems to do it, and
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

For instance, cloning the source from git:

$ git clone git://code.i3wm.org/i3
$ cd i3
$ make
In file included from src/auto_detect_format.c:15:0:
include/i3status.h:7:21: fatal error: confuse.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [src/auto_detect_format.o] Error 1

Any ideas of what could be the problem? I checked the dependencies, but I
am not sure which one could it be.
I am running it on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit by the way.

Any help is appreciated!

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*Braga, Bruno*
www.brunobraga.net
bruno.braga@xxxxxxxxx

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