Build & install gamescope for fresh-install Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

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Build & install gamescope for fresh-install Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

Due to what appears to be dependency issues, the gamescope package isn't avalible for Ubuntu 24.04. So here's a guide on how to build and install gamescope for Ubuntu 24.04

1. Pull latest git of gamescope

$ git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git

2. Install needed dependencies to build gamescope

$ sudo apt install libbenchmark1.8.3 libdisplay-info1 libevdev-dev libgav1-1 libgudev-1.0-dev libmtdev-dev libseat1 libstb0 libwacom-dev libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxmu-headers libyuv0 libx11-xcb-dev libxres-dev libxmu-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-res0-dev libcap-dev wayland-protocols libvulkan-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev cmake pkg-config meson libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxtst-dev libxkbcommon-dev libdrm-dev libpixman-1-dev libdecor-0-dev glslang-tools libbenchmark-dev libsdl2-dev libglm-dev libeis-dev libavif-dev

3. Build gamescope with meson first

$ meson build/

4. Buid gamescope with ninja

$ ninja -C build/

5. If the ninja build didn't produce any errors, install it to your system.

$ meson install -C build/ --skip-subprojects

For resolving the luajit issue I cloned, built and installed the luajit project directly.
https://luajit.org/index.html

1. git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git
2. cd luajit
3. make && make install (make install might need sudo)

Afterwards, meson setup worked fine.

3.14.26 breaks building in Ubuntu 24.04 with the wayland-server error, so a revert to 3.14.24 or the last commit before the wlroots update (5e8fddf) is needed to be done first before starting the build.

Here's what I used: git reset 5e8fddf --hard; git clean -fxd; git submodule update --init --force --recursive

Here's a link to the last commit before the wlroots update: ValveSoftware/gamescope@5e8fddf

And here's the breaking commit: ValveSoftware/gamescope@3542c4d

This solution does not seem to work anymore.

FWIW I have a fork of gamescope which builds under ubuntu24 while still having most of the recent upstream gamescope work. I maintain it sporadically but it's still far ahead of 3.14.26 or 3542c4d . It's at https://github.com/adamdmoss/gamescope-ubuntu24

I spent soo long getting this to build (endless dependencies, manual build of luajit, tweaks of the meson build dependencies) ... and then I realised on 25.04 you can just install the pre-built package: sudo apt install -y gamescope