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author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2016-08-01 13:39:34 +1000 |
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committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2016-08-05 08:58:28 +1000 |
commit | d7d64d98716431a62deb2d1440df49f9d5d7de1f (patch) | |
tree | a473432c8da67998b2b477e01107a74e9f0d3e6d /README.txt | |
parent | 33a6613671178db1cc0415c3c68085f1da42dc0e (diff) |
doc: add links to the two debugging tools as examples
These are the simplest examples on how to use libinput and should be enough to
get any potential user started.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
(cherry picked from commit 14d0cd9d38520295fb9244869edfa4648dd9424b)
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@@ -67,6 +67,23 @@ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/modules.html High-level documentation about libinput's features: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html +Examples of how to use libinput are the debugging tools in the libinput +repository. Developers are encouraged to look at those tools for a +real-world (yet simple) example on how to use libinput. + +- A commandline debugging tool: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/libinput/tree/tools/event-debug.c +- A GTK application that draws cursor/touch/tablet positions: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/libinput/tree/tools/event-gui.c + +libinput provides a +[pkg-config](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/) file. +Usually a program will use the `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` autoconf macro. +Otherwise, the most rudimentary way to compile and link a program against +libinput is: + + gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libinput` + +For further information on using pkgconfig see the pkg-config documentation. + License ------- |