On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:21 AM Florian Müllner
wrote:
> Tarball releases are provided largely for distributions to build
> packages. If you are interested in building GNOME Shell from source,
> we would recommend building from version control using the build
> script described at:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell
>
> Not only will that give you the very latest version of this rapidly
> changing project, it will be much easier than get GNOME Shell and its
> dependencies to build from tarballs.
>
Sorry if this has been asked before, but what is the current preferred way
of building and testing GNOME Shell? There's no section on that wiki page
about building that I can find.
There is a link to https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildGnome but I can
only find examples of application builds, not the shell, and I'm uncertain
whether the shell has specific other requirements. The development guide
page at https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development refers to
jhbuild, but jhbuild instructions say it's obsolete and replaced by
BuildStream.
I was able to build gnome-shell with BuildStream, but have had some
troubles figuring out how to run it, and am a bit unsure if that's actually
supported as various old posts describe them as not yet working together.
If I do 'bst shell core/gnome-shell.bst' and try to 'gnome-shell --x11 -r'
in the workspace, clutter errors out unable to find a GL driver. I'm unsure
whether this is because I'm using the Nvidia proprietary drivers and
they're not available inside the workspace, or whether it wouldn't work
even if I figure out how to fix this. (In a pinch I can probably switch
back to Nouveau temporarily, if that would work.)
Note the patch I'm working on changes both JS and C portions, so I can't
just swap out the live JS.
Thanks!
-- brion
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