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## Installation instructions
SDDM uses CMake to configure and build the project.
1. From the project root, create a build directory: `mkdir build`
2. From the build directory, run cmake to the project root. Eg: `cd build && cmake ..`
3. To build, run `make`.
4. To install, run `make install`.
CMake accepts a number of standard and extra arguments. For example, to build
with Qt 5, append the argument `-DUSE_QT5=true`.
By default, a debug build is created. To build for production, use
`cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release`.
To see all the possible arguments, run `cmake -L ..`.
For documentation on standard CMake variables, see:
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-variables.7.html
### Post-installation steps
By default, SDDM runs as its own user. An `sddm` user needs to be created, with
its home set to `/var/lib/sddm` by default.
### Dependencies
SDDM depends on PAM for authorization and XCB to communicate with the X server.
Apart from other things, it also depends on Qt for the user interface and event
loop management.
SDDM can optionally make use of logind (the systemd login manager API) or
upower to enable support for suspend, hibernate etc.
In order to build the man pages, you will need `rst2man` installed. It is
provided by the python `docutils` package
Note that SDDM makes use of C++11 features for a modern and clean codebase,
therefore it needs a recent version of GCC to compile (4.7 at least).