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