From Compiz
In order to compile Compiz from source code yourself instead of using a pre-compiled binary package, you'll need to download a source package or fetch the Git repository, install any prerequisites, and build and install the binary.
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Prerequisites
You'll need to install several development tools and library dependencies before compiling can succeed. Below is the list of required software for several Linux distributions.
BuildRequires on openSUSE
control-center2-devel freeglut-devel gcc-c++ gconf2-devel gtk2-devel intltool libdrm-devel librsvg-devel libwnck-devel metacity pango-devel update-desktop-files xorg-x11-devel perl-XML-Parser
If compiling on SUSE Linux 10.1 in addition to above you require:
xorg-x11-compat70-devel
Build-Depends on Debian
You can run apt-get build-dep compiz to get what's needed for the version in Debian source repositories. For reference, here's the Build-Depends:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt (>= 0.40), automake1.9, libtool, libglib2.0-dev, libgconf2-dev, libpng12-dev | libpng-dev, libxcomposite-dev (>= 1:0.3-2), libxfixes-dev (>= 1:4.0.1), libxdamage-dev (>=1:1.0.3), libxrandr-dev (>= 2:1.1.0.2), libxrender-dev (>= 1:0.9.1), libice-dev (>= 1:1.0.1), libsm-dev (>= 1:1.0.1), libgl1-mesa-dev (>= 6.5.1) | libgl-dev, libcairo-dev, librsvg2-dev, libgnome-desktop-dev, libgnome-window-settings-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libwnck-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libpango1.0-dev, x11proto-gl-dev (>= 1.4.8-1), libxinerama-dev, libmetacity-dev
For compiz 0.3.6 you will also need to install the following packages:
apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev libmetacity-dev libwnck-dev libgnome-window-settings-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnome-desktop-dev librsvg2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev
Building from tar ball on Ubuntu
There may be things missing here; this is just a guide for building with gtk-window-decorator and metacity support.
1. ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-librsvg --enable-gtk
should yield:
the following optional plugins will be compiled:
gconf: yes
place: yes
dbus: yes
annotate: yes
and the following optional features will be compiled:
svg: yes
gtk: yes
metacity: yes
gnome: yes
kde: no
2. make
3. sudo make install
Building and Installing Compiz
Building without static mesa (for users using Intel or new NVIDIA drivers and without Xgl):
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-librsvg && make && make install
If you downloaded a package instead of fetching from the repository, the command is ./configure instead of ./autogen.sh