cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53245270

Last post published was setting up Anubis (the bot protection) because I felt that documentation was lacking. This time I am publishing a "getting started" on Wayland for the same reason.

This guide is about programming a client application showing a window. It is coded in C++ but very close to C so hopefully anyone can read it and implement on their own.

If you find it nice please share the word around, this could help me a lot.

I feel their is not enough in-depth explanation of the whole protocol and there are some crazy caveats (like the most known article this is inspired from would not work on big-endian machine). This took me a lot of time to write and make a "simple" code to test (800 lines file).