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