Introduction

This guide is for those very experienced Linux users who needs to build some component of Intel Graphics Stack from scratch.  If you are not familiar with building these software components with autotools, using a pre-compiled and tested version available on your current distro is recommended.

If you decide to go ahead it is unlikely that you need to build all components from scratch. However this build tutorial list all of available components. Pick the ones that you actually need and proceed as instructed below for each component individually.

Getting Source and preparing environment 

Componets available:

• Linux Kernel
• Libdrm
• Xserver
• Xf86-video-intel
• Mesa
• Libva
• Vaapi-intel-driver
• Cairo
• Intel-gpu-tools

Stable

It is higly recommended to use latest stable Intel Graphics Stack released validated by our QA team.

Please get all components listed above from the latest released Linux Graphics Stack available at: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/

Or use the developement master branches as pointed out on each section below.

Preparing build environment

Please notice that the following line or similar will be used for preparing build of all sources but kernel:

./autogen.sh --prefix=$MY_DISTRO_PREFIX --libdir=$MY_DISTRO_LIBDIR

$MY_DISTRO_PREFIX and $MY_DISTRO_LIBDIR depends on your Linux distribution. It also may change on same distro depending on 32 bits x 64 bits.

Check carefully what you should use on your distro. Here goes some examples on Fedora 64 bits and on Ubuntu 64 bits:

Fedora 64 bits: 

export MY_DISTRO_PREFIX=/usr

export MY_DISTRO_LIBDIR=/usr/lib64

Ubuntu 64 bits:

export MY_DISTRO_PREFIX=/usr

export MY_DISTRO_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

For each package there is a list of dependencies that you must have already installed at your distro to get component built. Names of packes are generic and you should check the real package name for your distribution. Also, the list doesn't include basic build packages such as gcc, autotools, automake and other common build tools.

Building Kernel

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-tip

make defconfig

make

sudo make modules_install

sudo make install

Building Libdrm

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm

make

sudo make install

Building 2D driver Xf86-video-intel

Install Build dependencies: libdrm-devel

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

./autogen.sh --prefix=$MY_DISTRO_PREFIX --libdir=$MY_DISTRO_LIBDIR

make

sudo make install

Building 3D - Mesa

Install Build dependencies: libdrm-devel

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa

sudo make install

Building Xserver

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver

./autogen.sh --prefix=$MY_DISTRO_PREFIX

make

sudo make install

Building Libva

Install Build dependencies: mesa-devel, libpciaccess-devel, libdrm-devel, libXfixes-devel, libXext-devel

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/vaapi/libva

./autogen.sh --prefix=$MY_DISTRO_PREFIX 

Building Vaapi Intel Driver

Install Build dependencies:   libXfiles-devel, libXexet-devel, libva-devel, libdrm-devel, libpciaccess-devel, mesa-libGL-devel, 

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/vaapi/intel-driver

Building Intel-gpu-tools

Install Build dependencies: libpciaccess-dev, libdrm-dev xutilx-dev libcairo2-dev swig2.0 libpython3.3-dev x11proto-dri2-dev, mesa-devel, xorg-xserver-devel, xorg-macros, glib2-devel.

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools

make