1 You need the following libraries. The version given is to be understand as the minimum
2 version. However, if any of these libraries changes the API, i3 may not compile anymore.
3 In that case, please try using the versions mentioned below until a fix is provided.
5 * xcb-proto-1.3 (2008-12-10)
6 * libxcb-1.1.93 (2008-12-11)
7 * xcb-util-0.3.3 (2009-01-31)
10 * asciidoc >= 8.3.0 for docs/hacking-howto
11 * asciidoc, xmlto, docbook-xml for man/i3.man
12 * Xlib, the one that comes with your X-Server
13 * x11-utils for xmessage (only for displaying the welcome message, so this is
14 mainly interesting for distributors)
17 * i3lock for locking your screen
18 * dmenu for launching applications
20 Get the libraries from:
21 http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-proto-1.5.tar.bz2
22 http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.1.93.tar.bz2
23 http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-0.3.5.tar.bz2
24 http://libev.schmorp.de/
25 http://flex.sourceforge.net/
26 http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
28 http://i3.zekjur.net/i3lock/
29 http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu