This is the MinilibX, a simple X-Window (X11R6) programming API in C, designed for students, suitable for X-beginners.

Contents

• source code in C to create the mlx library
• man pages (in man/ directory)
• a test program (in test/ directory) is built with the library
• a public include file mlx.h
• a tiny configure script to generate an appropriate Makefile.gen

Requirements for Linux

• MinilibX only support TrueColor visual type (8,15,16,24 or 32 bits depth)
• gcc
• make
• X11 include files (package xorg)
• XShm extension must be present (package libxext-dev)
• Utility functions from BSD systems - development files (package libbsd-dev)
• e.g. sudo apt-get install gcc make xorg libxext-dev libbsd-dev (Debian/Ubuntu)

Requirements for MacOS

• Xquartz

➜  ~ Brew install Xquartz
➜  ~ reboot
➜  ~ xeyes # run an hello world X11 app

MlX Color Opacity / Transparency / Alpha (32 bits depth)

• 0xFF (fully transparent) or 0x00 (fully opaque)

Compile MinilibX

• run ./configure or make both will make a few tests, create Makefile.gen and then automatically run make on this generated Makefile.gen . libmlx.a and libmlx_$(HOSTTYPE).a are created. test/mlx-test binary is also created.

Install MinilibX

• no installation script is provided. You may want to install
  • libmlx.a and/or libmlx_$(HOSTTYPE).a in /usr/X11/lib or /usr/local/lib
  • mlx.h in /usr/X11/include or /usr/local/include
  • man/man3/mlx*.1 in /usr/X11/man/man3 or /usr/local/man/man3

Olivier CROUZET - 2014-01-06 -