1 libdrm - userspace library for drm
3 This is libdrm, a userspace library for accessing the DRM, direct
4 rendering manager, on Linux, BSD and other operating systes that
5 support the ioctl interface. The library provides wrapper functions
6 for the ioctls to avoid exposing the kernel interface directly, and
7 for chipsets with drm memory manager, support for tracking relocations
8 and buffers. libdrm is a low-level library, typically used by
9 graphics drivers such as the Mesa DRI drivers, the X drivers, libva
10 and similar projects. New functionality in the kernel DRM drivers
11 typically requires a new libdrm, but a new libdrm will always work
18 libdrm is a standard autotools packages and follows the normal
19 configure, build and install steps. The first step is to configure
20 the package, which is done by running the configure shell script:
24 By default, libdrm will install into the /usr/local/ prefix. If you
25 want to install this DRM to replace your system copy, pass
26 --prefix=/usr and --exec-prefix=/ to configure. If you are building
27 libdrm from a git checkout, you first need to run the autogen.sh
28 script. You can pass any options to autogen.sh that you would other
29 wise pass to configure, or you can just re-run configure with the
30 options you need once autogen.sh finishes.
32 Next step is to build libdrm:
36 and once make finishes successfully, install the package using
40 If you are install into a system location, you will need to be root to
41 perform the install step.