What is ilixi?

ilixi is an open-source lightweight GUI framework and it is designed with Linux based embedded devices in mind. ilixi uses DirectFB at its core in order to render all graphics content to a Linux framebuffer device. This eliminates the need for X server. Although DirectFB provides basic raster graphics functionality, Cairo and Pango are used for rendering 2D graphics and laying out text respectively.

Build instructions

This section briefly describes the steps for building ilixi only. For information on building dependencies please refer to ilixi web site (http://www.ilixi.org).

Note that DirectFB should be compiled with multi application core support.

Once all dependencies are successfully installed on your system you could build and install ilixi as follows:

./configure
make
make install

Ilixi uses Doxygen for documentation. If your system has required software, you could generate an up-to-date html documentation as follows:

./configure
make doxygen-doc

License

ilixi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.