Building

Building miraclecast

1. Install Dependencies:

For Ubuntu 18.04, assuming you're using the cmake build option below

sudo apt install cmake libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libsystemd-dev libreadline-dev check libtool autoconf

For Ubuntu 20.04, assuming you're using the cmake build option below

sudo apt install cmake libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libsystemd-dev libreadline-dev check libtool

For Fedora 33, assuming you're using the meson build option below

sudo dnf install cmake meson glib2-devel systemd-devel readline-devel check libtool

References:

1. No package glib-2.0 found - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182156/gentoo-no-package-glib-2-0-found/303618#303618
2. To fix this error: "cmake Could NOT find Readline (missing: READLINE_INCLUDE_DIR READLINE_LIBRARY)" - https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/issues/335#issuecomment-402544461

2. Build. Here are your build system options:

You have a series of options to build miraclecast. Each one is feature complete so as you will:

autotools:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../autogen.sh g --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

See g option is for debug compilation Use c for optimized compilation

cmake:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. 
$ make
$ make install  # May require `sudo`: `sudo make install`

meson:

$ meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
$ cd build
$ ninja
$ ninja test
$ ninja install

Tips:

• Usually you need to install as privilege user. There's many ways to do that, normally sudo will work

  $ sudo make install
  $ sudo ninja install
  

• In autotools autogen.sh accepts arguments to have specific configuration:

  • c: compilation
  • g: debugging
  • a: pure/const warning
  • l: clang build
  • s: scan-build reporting

• In cmake remember to remove CMakeCache.txt or cmake . will not regenerate Makefiles

• Meson build use mesontest --wrap to run test with specific executable. Use that to pass test with valgrind

• By default all will be installed in /usr/local. if you want to install in standard /usr path add --prefix=/usr to autogen.sh or meson build. For cmake use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

• Install step may require root privileges. This is commonly solved using sudo

• dbus policy is needed to expose dbus interfaces. This is read on '/etc' normally but you can modify it with: --sysconfdir on autotools and meson or -DSYSCONFDIR on cmake