Installing WirePlumber

Dependencies

In order to compile WirePlumber you will need:

• GLib >= 2.58
• PipeWire 0.3 (>= 0.3.5 highly recommended)

For building gobject-introspection data, you will also need g-ir-scanner, which is usually shipped together with the gobject-introspection development files.

For building documentation, you will also need hotdoc. Most distributions do not ship this, but you can install it easily using python's pip package manager.

Compilation

WirePlumber uses the meson build system.

To configure the project, you need to first run meson. The basic syntax is shown below:

meson [build directory] [source directory] [--prefix=/path] [...options...]

Assuming you want to build in a directory called build inside the source tree, you can run:

$ meson build . --prefix=/usr
$ ninja -C build

Additional options

• -Dintrospection=[enabled|disabled|auto]: Force enable or force disable building gobject-introspection data. The default value is auto, which means that g-i will be built if g-ir-scanner is found and skipped otherwise.
• -Ddocs=[enabled|disabled|auto]: Force enable or force disable building documentation. The default value is auto, which means that documentation will be built if hotdoc is found and skipped otherwise. Note that building the documentation also requires gobject-introspection data to be built.

Installation

To install, simply run the install target with ninja:

$ ninja -C build install

To revert the installation, there is also an uninstall target:

$ ninja -C build uninstall