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=What is QtWayland?=
 
QtWayland is a Qt 5 module that wraps the functionality of Wayland. QtWayland is separated into a client and server side. The client side is the wayland platform plugin, and provides a way to run Qt applications as Wayland clients. The server side is the QtCompositor <span class="caps">API</span>, and allows users to write their own Wayland compositors.
 
==What is Wayland==
 
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. For more detailed information you should visit the [http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Wayland project homepage] ''[wayland.freedesktop.org]''
 
=Where can I find the code for QtWayland?=
 
[http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtwayland Gitorious Repo] ''[qt.gitorious.org]''
 
=How do I build QtWayland?=
 
==Desktop build instructions==
 
===Setup build environment===
 
The first step is to start with a reasonably modern Linux distribution. I use Ubuntu 12.04, so anything newer is just gravy.<br /> The following instructions are based off of the tips on: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
 
The first thing I do is start by creating an install directory for my Wayland dependencies and create an environment file to source:
 
So if I wanted to install my Wayland dependencies into the folder $HOME/Apps/Wayland I would create the folder, and then create the file:<br />''~/Apps/Wayland/wayland.sourceme''
 
So then source that file to set up your work environment:<br />''source ~/Apps/Wayland/wayland.sourceme''
 
===Build dependencies===
 
Most of the dependencies you need are released, but not yet available in the latest Linux distributions, so you will need to build them. Here are the instructions for each in the order that they need to be built:
 
====wayland====
 
====drm====
 
====mesa====
 
====libxkbcommon====
 
====weston (optional)====
 
===Qt dependency===
 
Currently, you need to build the latest Qt (stable branch) (see http://lists.qt.io/pipermail/development/2013-December/014789.html ) <span class="caps">WITHOUT</span> using the wayland.sourceme environment. The modules you need at the very least are:<br /> qtbase<br /> qtjsbackend<br /> qtdeclarative
 
If you face linker errors related to libGL and undefined references, it may be necessary to compile Qt5 and link it with the self compiled mesa. Maybe due to the way that mesa was compiled and installed, the configure script will require to explicitly define the version of OpenGL to be used with: ./configure -opengl es2
 
===Building the QtWayland module===
 
Once you have a working build of Qt 5, then pull down the latest QtWayland module code and configure with “qmake” this time using the wayland.sourceme environment. Make sure that you use the version of qmake that you get with Qt 5 here. This will make sure that the Wayland platform plugin and QtCompositor <span class="caps">API</span> are build using your special versions of OpenGL and Wayland.
 
==Raspberry Pi build instructions==
 
Coming soon…
 
=How do I use QtWayland?=
 
==Run Qt applications as Wayland clients==
 
When you build the QtWayland module, you should get a new platform plugin for wayland. To use it you must first already have a Wayland compositor running. This could be either the Weston reference compositor provided by the Wayland project, or a Qt example compositor provided by QtWayland. Regardless the only thing you need to do as an application developer to run your <span class="caps">GUI</span> application as a wayland client is:
 
==Create and Run your own Wayland Compositor with Qt5==
 
===Running example compositors===
 
The QtWayland module provides a couple of example compositors that demonstrate how the QtCompositor <span class="caps">API</span> works. These are built in the examples folder of the QtWayland module if you add “wayland-compositor” to the <span class="caps">CONFIG</span> variable when starting qmake, as in :<br />
 
These examples represent the server side of Wayland, so they do not use the wayland platform plugin, but rather whatever platform you need to run on. Generally this is going to be either ''eglfs'', ''kms'', or if you want to run in X11 ''xcb''.
 
If you wanted to run the qml-compositor in X11 you would run the following:
 
And now that you have a Wayland compositor running, you can connect and display Wayland clients.
 
===Creating your own compositor===
 
The <span class="caps">API</span> to create a Wayland compositor and control associated events (e.g. a new client connected) is exposed through the QtWayland class WaylandCompositor. Its constructor expects as the primary parameter a pointer to a QWindow object, which allows some flexibility when implementing your compositor.
 
Thanks to this, there are 3 different approaches while implementing a compositor:
 
* QWindow based: the instance will be used to setup the WaylandCompositor object.
 
* QWidget based: in this case, the base widget window handle will be used.
 
* <span class="caps">QML</span> based: your C++ application will use a QQuickView object to setup the WaylandCompositor. At the time of writing, there is no way to create a compositor using only <span class="caps">QML</span>.
 
WaylandCompositor is a pure abstract virtual class, which means that it is not possible to create instances of it. A common pattern while implementing a compositor is inherit from WaylandCompositor and implement the function method '''void surfaceCreated(WaylandSurface *surface)'''.
 
This method will be executed every time a new client connects (i.e. an application was started and requests the services of the compositor), being represented as a WaylandSurface object. There are some signals that this object can generate and must be treated by the compositor, namely:
 
* mapped(): emitted when the client has connected to the compositor.
 
* damaged(): <span class="caps">TODO</span>
 
* destroyed(): emitted when the client quits (i.e. the application has exited)
 
* unmapped(): <span class="caps">TODO</span>
 
* extendedSurfaceReady(): <span class="caps">TODO</span>
 
The project file will need to use the compositor module (i.e. add in the .pro file '''QT += compositor'''). It is interesting to comment that at time of writing, there are some <span class="caps">QML</span> related <span class="caps">API</span>s only available by adding a define in the project file (i.e. '''<span class="caps">DEFINES</span> += QT_COMPOSITOR_QUICK''').
 
===Starting the compositor standalone===
 
<span class="caps">TODO</span>

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