Getting Involved in Mir

Getting involved

The Mir project website is http://www.mirserver.io/, the code is hosted on GitHub

For announcements and other discussions on Mir see: Mir on community.ubuntu

For other questions and discussion about the Mir project: the #mirserver IRC channel on Libera.Chat.

Getting Mir source and dependencies

You can get the source with:

git clone https://github.com/MirServer/mir.git
cd mir

You may need to install git for the system you are working on.

You’ll also need a few development tools installed. The exact dependencies and instructions vary across distros.

On Ubuntu

sudo apt install devscripts equivs
mk-build-deps -i -s sudo

On Fedora and Alpine

As we build these distros in Mir's CI you can copy the instructions from the corresponding files under spread/build.

Building Mir

mkdir build
cd  build
cmake ..
make

This creates an example shell (miral-shell) in the bin directory. This can be run directly:

bin/miral-shell

With the default options this runs in a window on X (which is convenient for development).

The miral-shell example is simple, don’t expect to see a sophisticated launcher by default. You can start mir apps from the command-line. For example:

bin/miral-run qterminal

To exit from miral-shell press Ctrl-Alt-BkSp.

You can install the Mir examples, headers and libraries you've built with:

sudo make install

Contributing to Mir

Please file bug reports at: https://github.com/MirServer/mir/issues

The Mir development mailing list can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Mir-devel

The Mir coding guidelines are here.

Working on Mir code

• Mir Read me
• Mir hacking guide
• Mir component reports
• A brief guide for versioning symbols in the Mir DSOs
• performance_framework
• Measuring visual latency