cl-wayland

cl-wayland is a Common Lisp wrapper for libwayland. It aims to allow Wayland compositors and clients to be written in Common Lisp.

Status

This version of cl-wayland is being developed primarily for mahogany, and covers most of the functions and structs that are needed for usage in common lisp.

Requiremnts

cl-wayland (obiously) requires libwayland and cffi. It is likely that libwayland already exists on your Linux installation if it is recent.

Installation

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :cl-wayland)

wayland-scanner

cl-wayland contains an implementation of the wayland-scanner tool for common lisp, and features asdf integration. It is known to generate the server bindings properly, but it is untested whether the client bindings are generated 100% correctly. It introduces two new asdf directives, :c-wl-scanner and :wl-scanner.

• :c-wl-scanner is used to generate c header files of the appropriate type. This is useful when you are grovelling files that depend on these header files. When using this directive, the file extension of the file to be generated needs to be included.
• :wl-scanner directly generates lisp source files, and exports all of the generated source files based on the protocol type and the protocol name.

Both of these directives have several options that control what type of interface they generate, and where the protocol xml files are located.

• :protocol-name is the name of the protocol.
• :protocol-type determines if a client or server interface is generated. Valid values are :client and :server.
• :protocol-source tells the generator where to find the xml files. Four options are possible: :wl-server, for when generating the wayland-server protocol, :wl-client for when generating the wayland-client protocol, :wl-protos for generating a protocol distributed with wayland-protocols, and finally, you can specify an absolute path of type pathname.

Example asdf file:

Here is a minimal example of an asdf system definition file using wayland-scanner:

(asdf:defsystem #:wayland-protocols
  :depends-on (#:cl-wayland)
  :defsystem-depends-on (#:wayland-scanner)
  :components
  (
   ;; Generate a file called "xdg-shell-protocol" containing the server
   ;; protocol specified in the xdg-shell protocol.
   ;; Since :protocol-source is unspecified, :wl-protos is assumed.
   ;; The package name will be "xdg-shell-protocol"
   (:wl-scanner "xdg-shell-protocol" :protocol-type :server
                :protocol-name "xdg-shell")
   (:wl-scanner "wayland-server-protocol" :protocol-type :server
                :protocol-name "wayland"
                :protocol-source :wl-server)))