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sway Roadmap

  • boot cross img

  • build cmake (needed for json-c)

  • build json-c (needed for sway)

  • build libffi (needed for wayland which is needed for sway)

  • build mpdecimal (needed for python)

  • build python (needed for wayland to build)

  • build wayland (needed for sway)

  • build wayland-protocols (needed for sway)

  • build libpciaccess (needed for libdrm)

  • build libdrm (needed for wlroots which is needed for sway)

  • build libxml2 (needed for libxkbcommon which is needed for wlroots which is needed for sway)

  • build libxkbcommon (needed for wlroots)

  • build libpng (needed for pixman which is needed for wlroots which is needed for sway)

  • build pixman (needed for wlroots)

  • [BROKEN] build egl and vulkan (needed for wlroots)?

  • [BROKEN] build gbm (needed for wlroots)?

  • build hwdata (needed for wlroots)

  • build mtdev (needed for libinput which is needed for wlroots which is needed for sway)

  • build libevdev (needed for libinput which is needed for wlroots which is needed for sway)

  • build libinput (needed for wlroots)

  • build basu/sd-bus (needed for seatd which is needed for wlroots)?

  • build seatd (needed for wlroots)

  • [BROKEN] build wlroots (needed for sway)

  • build cairo (needed for sway)

  • [BROKEN] build glib (needed for pango which is needed for sway)

  • build harfbuzz (needed for pango which is needed for sway)

  • build fontconfig (needed for pango which is needed for sway)

  • build freetype (needed for fontconfig which is needed for pango which is needed for sway)

  • build pango (needed for sway)

  • muon is broken due to meson adding iconv as a dependency

  • harfbuzz and freetype have a circular dependency (kiss is working around that)

  • you need to install cairo after freetype and fontconfig to get a font backend? or else pango won’t build