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### Build Dependencies and Installation

It should be possible to build this project for most platforms using cargo
directly. Installation and XScreensaver integration probably only works on UNIX
machines (Linux, *BSD, etc). It's only been developed and tested on Debian
jessie, using the stable Rust toolchain (version 1.9).

A patched version of the `glutin` OpenGL window generation library is required;
see below.

The `pandoc` tool is required for building manpages.

To just build (`--debug`) and run an indivual "hack", eg `exuberantbovines`:

    cargo run --bin exuberantbovines

To build everything (`--release`) and install, first run:

    make install

Then follow the directions about adding lines like the following to you
`~/.xscreensaver` to have hacks actually show up in, eg, `xscreensaver-demo`:

    GL:               exuberantbovines --root             \n\

### Installing Patched glutin Library

Circa June 2016, this project requires a patched version of the `glutin` window
creation library to allow re-using an existing X Window. This is only necessary
for integration with X Windows, but the project won't build without it.

As a workaround until there is a solution in upstream `glutin`, use the "dependency override" feature of the cargo build tool:

  http://doc.crates.io/specifying-dependencies.html#overriding-dependencies

Checkout the `feature-existing` branch from
`https://github.com/bnewbold/glutin`, then, under this directory
(exuberant-hacks), create a `.cargo/config` file with a path like:

  paths = ["/home/bnewbold/src/glutin"]

### Creating Your Own Hacks

You'll need to create at least three files with the same base name ("$HACK"):

- the rust sourcecode (src/bin/$HACK.rs)
- an XML config file (configs/$HACK.xml)
- a manpage in Markdown format (doc/$HACK.6.md)

Then just add your HACK to the list in Makefile.

See also XScreensaver's "Writing new XScreenSaver modules"

    https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master2/README.hacking