Gaming Linux^® From Scratch

Table of Contents

• Preface

  • Foreword
  • Who Would Want to Read this Book
  • Organization

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Welcome to GLFS

    • Which Sections of the Book Do I Want?
    • Conventions Used in this Book
    • Getting the Source Packages
    • Rationale for Packages
    • Security Advisories
    • Change Log
    • Asking for Help
    • Artwork
    • Credits
    • Contact Information
    • Important Information
    • The Bash Shell Startup Files

  • 2. Multilib

    • What is Multilib?
    • Do I Need Multilib?
    • Achieving Multilib
    • Pkgconf Personalties
    • Meson Toolchain Files

• II. Shared Dependencies

  • 3. Networking

    • Connecting to the Internet
    • libtasn1-4.21.0
    • NSPR-4.38.2
    • NSS-3.120
    • p11-kit-0.26.2
    • make-ca-1.16.1
    • libunistring-1.4.1
    • libidn2-2.3.8
    • libpsl-0.21.5
    • cURL-8.18.0
    • Wget-1.25.0

  • 4. Security

    • Linux-PAM-1.7.2
    • Shadow-4.19.3
    • Systemd-259.1
    • duktape-2.7.0
    • GLib-2.86.4
    • ICU-78.2
    • libxml2-2.15.1
    • shared-mime-info-2.4
    • desktop-file-utils-0.28
    • Polkit-127

  • 5. Tooling

    • CMake-4.2.3
    • LLVM-21.1.8
    • Rustc-1.93.1
    • Cbindgen-0.29.2
    • rust-bindgen-0.72.1
    • Mako-1.3.10
    • Cython-3.2.4
    • libyaml-0.2.5
    • PyYAML-6.0.3
    • Ruby-4.0.1

  • 6. Audio

    • ALSA
    • alsa-lib-1.2.15.3
    • alsa-plugins-1.2.12
    • alsa-utils-1.2.15.2
    • libogg-1.3.6
    • libvorbis-1.3.7
    • FLAC-1.5.0
    • Opus-1.6.1
    • Speex-1.2.1
    • libsndfile-1.2.2
    • PulseAudio-17.0

  • 7. Basic X11 Software

    • Basic Xorg-7 Software Introduction
    • util-macros-1.20.2
    • xorgproto-2025.1
    • libXau-1.0.12
    • libXdmcp-1.1.5
    • xcb-proto-1.17.0
    • libxcb-1.17.0
    • Which-2.23 and Alternatives
    • libpng-1.6.55
    • FreeType-2.14.1
    • HarfBuzz-12.3.2
    • Fontconfig-2.17.1
    • Xorg Libraries
    • libxcvt-0.1.3
    • XCB Utils
    • D-Bus-1.16.2
    • libunwind-1.8.3
    • Nettle-3.10.1
    • GnuTLS-3.8.12
    • Pixman-0.46.4
    • mtdev-1.1.7
    • libevdev-1.13.6
    • libinput-1.30.1

  • 8. Wayland

    • Wayland-1.24.0
    • Wayland-Protocols-1.47

  • 9. Graphics APIs

    • About OpenGL
    • libglvnd-1.7.0
    • GLU-9.0.3
    • Vulkan-SDK-1.4.341.0
    • SPIRV-LLVM-Translator-21.1.3
    • libatomic_ops-7.10.0
    • Libdrm-2.4.131
    • libgbm-1.0.4
    • libva-2.23.0
    • DRI from Mesa-25.3.5
    • OpenCL-Headers-2025.07.22
    • OCL-ICD-2.3.4
    • libclc-21.1.8

  • 10. Graphics Drivers - Preliminaries

    • What Drivers to Install
    • GPU Kernel Options and Firmware
    • pciutils-3.14.0
    • hwdata-0.404

  • 11. Graphics Drivers - NVIDIA

    • NVIDIA Revisions
    • NVIDIA EGL Libraries
    • nv-codec-headers-13.0.19.0 (ffnvcodec)
    • NVIDIA-VA-API-Driver-0.0.14
    • r590
    • Introduction to NVIDIA-r590
    • NVIDIA-590.48.01
    • CUDA-13.1.1
    • r580
    • Introduction to NVIDIA-r580
    • NVIDIA-580.126.09
    • CUDA-13.0.2

  • 12. Graphics Drivers - Mesa

    • Mesa-25.3.5

  • 13. X11

    • xbitmaps-1.1.3
    • Xorg Applications
    • xcursor-themes-1.0.7
    • Xorg Fonts
    • XKeyboard-Config-2.46
    • libepoxy-1.5.10
    • Xorg-Server-21.1.21
    • Xwayland-24.1.9
    • Xorg Input Drivers
    • xinit-1.4.4

  • 14. Checkpoint

    • What Now?

• III. Steam

  • 15. Steam Preliminaries

    • What is Steam?
    • Steam Dependencies

  • 16. Installing Steam Dependencies

    • Xdg-user-dirs-0.19
    • libgpg-error-1.59

  • 17. Steam

    • Steam-1.0.0.85

• IV. Wine

  • 18. Wine Preliminaries

    • What is Wine?
    • Wine Dependencies

  • 19. The MinGW-w64 Toolchain

    • What is the MinGW-w64 Toolchain?
    • MinGW-w64-headers-13.0.0
    • MinGW-w64-Binutils-2.46
    • Static MinGW-w64-GCC-15.2.0
    • MinGW-w64-13.0.0
    • MinGW-w64-GCC-15.2.0

  • 20. Miscellaneous

    • libxkbcommon-6f76d1 (1.13.1)
    • SDL3-3.4.0
    • sdl2-compat-2.32.64

  • 21. GS

    • NASM-3.01
    • SVT-AV1-4.0.1
    • dav1d-1.5.3
    • libaom-3.13.1
    • fdk-aac-2.0.3
    • LAME-3.100
    • libvpx-1.16.0
    • x264-20250815
    • x265-4.1
    • FFmpeg-8.0.1
    • GStreamer Suite 1.28.0

  • 22. Wine

    • Wine-11.2
    • DXVK-2.7.1
    • VKD3D-Proton-3.0b

• V. Quality of Life

  • 23. Quality of Life

    • Gamepad Support
    • Binary Support
    • inih-62
    • GameMode-1.8.2

• A. Creative Commons License

• B. The MIT License

• Glossary

• Index