Wayland.SourceGenerator

Wayland.SourceGenerator

A source generator that generates bindings for libwayland

Introduction

This source generator generates bindings for libwayland for writing native wayland clients in C#. For further documentation of wayland protocols, see https://wayland.app/.

Usage

Either install the NuGet package Wayland.SourceGenerator or clone the git repository and add a project reference to the source generator in your .csproj:

<ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="./Wayland.SourceGenerator/Wayland.SourceGenerator/Wayland.SourceGenerator.csproj" OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />
</ItemGroup>

Then add the xml definitions as AdditionalFiles to your project:

<ItemGroup>
    <AdditionalFiles Include="WaylandXml/*.xml" />
</ItemGroup>

Now you can connect to the wayland socket with

WlDisplay display = WlDisplay.Connect();

and start writing your client.

Make sure that all dependencies of a protocol are also included, e.g. xdg_shell needs the core wayland protocol as it uses the wl_seat type.

Duplicate protocols with the same name e.g. when cloning the wayland-protocols repository, wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v6.xml and wayland-protocols/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml are in conflict.