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authorfuzzard <fuzzard@users.noreply.github.com>2023-12-03 07:15:48 +1000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-12-03 07:15:48 +1000
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Merge pull request #24018 from lrusak/linux-docs-libdisplay-info
[linux][docs] add note about libdisplay-info when building kodi with gbm windowing
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**Note:** fstrcmp requires libtool
+### 3.3. External Dependencies
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+Building with GBM windowing (including `gbm` in the `CORE_PLATFORM_NAME` cmake config) requires `libdisplay-info` for EDID parsing. This is currently a hard dependency for GBM windowing and no internal build option is available. Some distributions may already package it but if not it is available to build from source here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/libdisplay-info
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## 4. Build Kodi