error installing on Devuan

[bja-au]

Trying to install on Devuan Daedalus running Budgie 10.7.1 however when running 'meson build' I get ...

The Meson build system
Version: 1.0.1
Source dir: /home/brian/bin/budgie-screensaver-main
Build dir: /home/brian/bin/budgie-screensaver-main/build
Build type: native build
Project name: budgie-screensaver
Project version: 5.1.0
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 12.2.0 "cc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.40
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program git found: YES (/usr/bin/git)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.8.1)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.25.1)
Run-time dependency x11 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

meson.build:15:0: ERROR: Dependency "x11" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

A full log can be found at /home/brian/bin/budgie-screensaver-main/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
WARNING: Running the setup command as meson [options] instead of meson setup [options] is ambiguous and deprecated.

...

Thanks
BJA

[JoshStrobl]

Yes you need x11 headers and pkgconfig:

meson.build:15:0: ERROR: Dependency "x11" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

[bja-au]

Yes you need x11 headers and pkgconfig:

meson.build:15:0: ERROR: Dependency "x11" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

I am running Devuan unstable. In the repositories is ...
https://github.com/matze/pkgconfig
... for pkconfig but can't find X11 headers :(

[JoshStrobl]

You'll need to talk to them about it.

[bja-au]

I feared that :)
Thanks

[fossfreedom]

You will need to install the build dependencies ... this should get you started

https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-screensaver/blob/debian/debian/control