Installation documentation: what are the dependencies for compiling arbtt?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Samstag, den 27.09.2014, 16:58 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:
> An acquaintance wanted to use --dump-samples but her arbtt was too old
> (apparently the Ubuntu package is well behind the times?) and so
> installed a fresh one from Hackage when a compile error hit:
> 
>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>     X11-1.6.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>     ExitFailure 1
> 
> As many Xmonad users know, this is the common problem of having not
> installed the headers/-dev package for the X11 library, which then
> makes the X11 Haskell bindings impossible to compile, which makes
> arbtt impossible to compile:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Missing_X11_headers

Well spotted.

> The solution is to install libx11-dev on Debian or xorg-dev (which
> isn't mentioned in http://arbtt.nomeata.de/#install ).

I guess you’ll send a patch for that soon? :-)

> But are there any other foreign dependencies which need to be
> mentioned for people installing from source?

Probably libpcre3-dev for pcre-light, and libxss-dev for arbtt itself.

Greetings,
Joachim

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