X Server Build: 1.4 Development Version on Mac OS 10.5.5

These are instructions for building and installing the X server from the latest 1.4 development sources, using a fresh installation of Mac OS 10.5.5.

Since people frequently check in changes to the freedesktop.org git repository, it's possible these instructions won't work for you. They were last verified on 11 Oct 2008. If they don't work for you, please send email to the XQuartz mailing list.

Note: This only builds the X server for your machine's native architecture. It doesn't build a universal binary.

Prepare Machine

1. Install Mac OS 10.5.5, using the default install options.
   
2. Log in with an administrative account.
   
3. Install XCode 3.1.1, using all the default install options
   
   • If you don't have this version of XCode, follow these instructions to download the installer.
4. Run the X11 app from the Utilities folder. Make sure an xterm window appears, and check the about box. It should say: Xquartz 2.1.5 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple22) (2.1.5)
5. Quit X11

Install and Verify Newer X11

1. Use a web browser to download and install the latest development X11 version from ​http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-2.3.1_rc6_10.5.5.pkg
2. Run X11 (in the Utilities directory), make sure an xterm window appears, and check the about box. It should now say: XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple17)
3. Quit X11.

Build and Install 1.4 From freedesktop.org

Open Terminal (in the Utilities directory) and start entering commands the commands you see in this font. It's best to copy and paste these commands, and you can paste them in blocks as shown. For the lines that start with "sudo", you will often have to enter your administrative account's password.

Make X11 build directory

cd /
mkdir x11build
cd /x11build

Download support components

curl -LO http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/proto/applewmproto-1.1.0.tar.bz2
curl -LO http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
curl -LO http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.11.8.tar.gz
curl -LO http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mesa3d/MesaLib-7.0.4.tar.bz2
curl -LO http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.tar.bz2

Unpackage support components

tar -xf applewmproto-1.1.0.tar.bz2
tar -xzf pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
tar -zxf pixman-0.11.8.tar.gz 
tar -xjf MesaLib-7.0.4.tar.bz2
tar xf git-1.6.0.tar.bz2

Build applewmproto, and install into the normal X11 location (make not needed)

cd /x11build/applewmproto-1.1.0
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/X11
sudo make install

Build and install pkg-config

cd /x11build/pkg-config-0.23
./configure
make
sudo make install

Build and install git

cd /x11build/git-1.6.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make all
sudo make install

Prepare for building pixman, mesa, and X server

export ACLOCAL="aclocal -I /usr/X11/share/aclocal"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -Wall -O2 -pipe"
export LDFLAGS="-Wall -O2 -pipe"

Build and install pixman

cd /x11build/pixman-0.11.8
./configure
make
sudo make install

Obtain xserver sources via git

cd /x11build/
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver.git

Get the 1.4 and 1.5 apple branches

cd /x11build/xserver
git branch --track xorg-server-1.4-apple origin/xorg-server-1.4-apple
git branch --track xorg-server-1.5-apple origin/xorg-server-1.5-apple

Switch to the 1.4-apple branch, and build and install it and Mesa

git checkout -f xorg-server-1.4-apple
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/X11 --with-mesa-source=`pwd`/../Mesa-7.0.4 --disable-dependency-tracking
make
sudo make install

That's it! You've built and installed the X server.

Verify X server

Run X11 again, make sure an xterm window appears, and check the about box. It should now say: XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple19) or something later else that's later than what you saw before (note the 2.3.2).