Does what it says on the tin. You know these "to be continued" freeze-frame videos? Now, on a desktop near you!
- SDL2 for all targets
- An X11 server which implements a root window. This means rootless XWayland (as used in Wayland desktop environments) will not work.
libX11for taking the screenshot
On build machine, gcc and pkg-config are also required.
Clone the repository and run make. If you have a system-wide installation of SDL2
and X11, this should work out of the box.
The provided Makefile supports a couple extra options which should help target other platforms:
- The usual
CCandLDto specify a cross-compiler. You shouldn't need to redefine them. - Like in the Linux kernel,
Odesignates an alternate output directory. BACKENDselects a specific method to take a screenshot. Individual backends can be found as subdirectories ofsrc.
Building the executable on Windows has only been tested on MSys2, with the mingw32 toolchain. The pc-msys2 toolchain may work provided that you have the SDL2 library available.
The x11 backend can be made to work, but libX11 is not available on the MSys2 repositories, and an X server like vcXsrv is required on the target machine.
If you are running on macOS or Linux, you can run ./nix build .#forWindows to cross-compile the Windows executable.
The generated SDL2.dll file will need to be provided alongside the executable in order for it to work.
Ensure that you have installed the macOS SDK (which can be found in Xcode), and
build using the provided Makefile.
The preferred backend is quartz, as it can be made to work without installing an
X server.
Building the x11 backend requires an X server such as XQuartz,
as well as libX11 and its development headers. An X server will be required on the
target machine as well.
It is currently not possible to cross-compile to macOS from Linux using Nix, due to
the lack of Darwin's libSystem. osxcross
might work, you are free to try.