Linuxbrew Xorg

Xorg libraries for Linuxbrew users

Install

brew tap linuxbrew/homebrew-xorg &&
brew install xorg

This will install (all) Xorg libraries. To see the progress of the installation, enable verbose messaging by providing the -v (--verbose) flag:

brew install -v xorg

You can also install individual libraries/packages provided in this tap by running

brew install <formula-name>

Requirements

Main dependencies of the Xorg libraries are:

• pkg-config: to build packages from source
• fontconfig: required by libxft
• freetype: required by libxfont
• python: required by xcb-proto

To build documentation (enabled with --with-docs flag), the following packages are required:

• xorg-sgml-doctools
• xmlto
• fop¹
• libxslt
• asciidoc
• w3m²

1: reciprocal dependency is not resolved at the present time but it does not affect the build process
2: Not used at the moment

Details

Installation proceeds according to the instructions from Linux From Scratch

To build documentation, use --with-docs flag, i.e.:

brew install xorg --with-docs

This will install xorg-docs package and enable the following dependencies: fop, libxslt, xmlto. There is an additional dependency on asciidoc for inputproto and libxi packages.

To see the list of optional flags when compiling libraries with documentation, use:

brew info xorg --with-docs

When building packages from source code, compile-time tests are enabled by default. To skip then, use --without-test flag, i.e.:

brew install xorg --build-from-source --without-test

You can also build static libraries (though, this is neither required nor recommended) using --with-static flag, i.e.:

brew install xorg --with-static

You can combine (all) of the above options (flags), i.e.:

brew install xorg --with-docs

Issues / Ongoing work

• Reciprocal dependency with fop is not resolved. As a result, not all documentation might be built.
• Provide other Xorg packages