Building Sway

Deps

meson

sudo apt install meson

wlroots

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots.git

sudo apt install libxcb-xinput-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev
apt install wayland-protocols

Build & Install:

cd ~/projects/wayland/sway/wlroots
gup
meson --reconfigure build && ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install

Build sway

Install deps:

sudo apt install libcap-dev libpam0g-dev scdoc libjson-c-dev

Build and install:

cd ~/projects/wayland/sway/sway
gup
meson --reconfigure build && ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install

Run:

  LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwlroots.so sway