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Installation instructions for libx52

Build has been tested on the following operating systems (x86-64 only):

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • macOS Big Sur 11
  • macOS Monterey 12

Prerequisites

Required Packages

  • automake
  • autoconf
  • autopoint
  • gettext
  • hidapi + headers
  • libtool
  • libusb-1.0 + headers
  • libevdev + headers (on Linux)
  • pkg-config
  • python3 (3.6 or greater)
  • git (not required for builds, but necessary to clone the repository)

Installation instructions

Platform Install instructions
Ubuntu sudo apt-get install automake autoconf gettext autopoint libhidapi-dev libevdev-dev libtool libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config python3 git
MacOS + Homebrew brew install automake autoconf gettext hidapi libtool libusb pkg-config python3 git
Arch Linux pacman -S base-devel libusb hidapi libevdev python git
Fedora sudo dnf install autoconf automake gettext-devel findutils libtool hidapi-devel libusb-devel libevdev-devel pkg-config python3 git

Optional Packages

  • doxygen - to generate HTML documentation and man pages
  • libcmocka (1.1 or greater) + headers - to run unit tests

Installation Instructions

  1. Clone the repository
git clone /~https://github.com/nirenjan/libx52.git
  1. Run autogen.sh
cd ./libx52
./autogen.sh
  1. Run the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
make && sudo make install

You may want to remove or edit the --prefix=/usr option, most users prefer non-distro binaries in /usr/local (default without --prefix) or /opt.

Configuration options

udev

The configuration system should automatically detect the udev rules directory, but you can override it by using the following argument to configure:

--with-udevrulesdir=/path/to/udev/rules.d

Input group

The udev rules that are installed provide read/write access to members of the input devices group. This defaults to plugdev, but can be modified using the following argument to configure:

--with-input-group=group

Systemd support

The X52 daemon can run either as a foreground process, or it can daemonize itself to run in the background. Typical deployments with systemd will have it run in the foreground, and disable timestamps in the logs, since those are inserted automatically by journald.

Systemd support is enabled by default, but can be disabled with the --disable-systemd argument to configure

It is also possible to configure the directory in which the service file is installed with the following option. This is ignored if you have specified --disable-systemd.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/path/to/systemd/system