iland is a library that implements the platform functionality required by Wayland compositors on macOS.
It is not an application, desktop environment, compositor, or display server. Instead, iland provides the low-level services that Wayland compositors expect from the operating system, allowing them to run natively on macOS.
No AppKit, Cocoa, Aqua, or WindowServer integration is required.
I'm not kidding! Look for yourself! (Booting directly to Weston)
To build, you need these:
sudo port install angle # OpenGL ES implementaition
sudo port install wayland # XQuartz fork — builds on darwin
sudo port install wayland-protocols
sudo port install libpixman cairo pango
sudo port install libxkbcommon
sudo port install pkgconfig meson ninja
sh compile.sh
Produces libwayland-mac.dylib.
Clean: sudo pkill -9 inputd framebufferd weston caffeinate; sudo rm -rf /private/tmp/libwayland-support; rm -rf build build-weston;
Build: sh compile.sh; sh build-weston.sh
All: sudo pkill -9 inputd framebufferd weston caffeinate; sudo rm -rf /private/tmp/libwayland-support; rm -rf build build-weston; sh compile.sh; sh build-weston.sh
System Integrity Protection (SIP) must be disabled for DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES and runtime code patching (used by Dobby) to function. Without disabling SIP, the shim will not work.