Waybar: Error while istalling Waybar on fedora using sudo make install

[GeoDerp]

This is what it spitted out in the /home/(username)/Waybar/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt while running the make install on fedora 29 workstation, any ideas ?

Determining dependency 'wayland-client' with CMake executable '/usr/bin/cmake'
Try CMake generator: auto
Called `/usr/bin/cmake --trace-expand -DNAME=wayland-client .` in /home/(username)/Waybar/build/meson-private/cmake_wayland-client -> 0
Dependency wayland-client found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

meson.build:36:0: ERROR:  Dependency "wayland-client" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

[Alexays]

You need a wayland environment, are you on sway or wlroots based compositor?

[Alexays]

Otherwise you need these following depencies:

gtkmm3
jsoncpp
libinput
libsigc++
wayland
wlroots
libpulse [Pulseaudio module]
libnl [Network module]
sway [Sway modules]
libdbusmenu-gtk3 [Tray module]

[GeoDerp]

You need a wayland environment, are you on sway or wlroots based compositor?

I am using sway

[jeefberkey]

Sway from the fedora repos is too old, you have to compile from source.

[GeoDerp]

Sway from the fedora repos is too old, you have to compile from source.

GRATE, after doing the painstaking process of compiling sway I successfully installed waybar.

I now get this error when running waybar, any ideas?

Resources files: /home/(username)/.config/waybar/config, /home/(username)/.config/waybar/style.css
Failed to acquire required resources

I already have an config and style.css file in the dir with the defult configs

[Alexays]

@GeoDerp Do you use the new compiled sway binary or the old one?

[cedws]

If you're struggling to build Sway, feel free to check out some of these resources I created:

• Fedora 29 Sway/wlroots Dockerfile
• Development Setup

[GeoDerp]

Thank you @c-edw ,
that helped my quite a bit in figuring out my issue. My main error was the use of wlroots and not setting up the variables correctly (also had a problem where sudo bash would work with the meson build files but sodo meson build wont find the wlroots .pc's).

Once I finish my set up i'll post the bash install script I made just for anyone els that is using fedora workstation and is interested (_there was quite a bit of troubleshooting involved and some weird dependencies needed so I hope that helps anyone els that might be in the same boat)_ .

_Thanks Again to @Alexays @c-edw and @jeefberkey for spending the time and helping a noob like me out._