Package Details: wayvr-git 26.2.1.r17.ab3f873-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/wayvr-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: wayvr-git
Description: Your way to enjoy VR on Linux! Access your Wayland/X11 desktop from SteamVR/Monado (OpenVR+OpenXR support)
Upstream URL: https://github.com/wlx-team/wayvr
Keywords: monado openvr openxr overlay steamvr wayland wlx
Licenses: GPL-3.0-or-later
Conflicts: wayvr
Provides: wayvr
Replaces: wlx-overlay-s-git
Submitter: galister
Maintainer: galister
Last Packager: galister
Votes: 19
Popularity: 2.60
First Submitted: 2026-01-10 11:25 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-02-27 11:02 (UTC)

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Kresny commented on 2026-02-27 10:11 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-27 10:14 (UTC) by Kresny)

For some reason, every build runs twice at the moment, and it's been like that for a while.

awh commented on 2026-02-15 17:31 (UTC)

might be worth putting "previously known as wlx-overlay-s" somewhere in the package so it shows up on search results

A43 commented on 2026-01-13 21:25 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-13 21:30 (UTC) by A43)

It is not necessary to intentionally push changes exclusively to the pkgver variable to the AUR for this package. You already have automatically setting the pkgver based on the latest git tag and commit properly implemented, as is done with all quality -git packages, so there is no need. pacman-git, the PKGBUILD for which goes unchanged for months, is a good example of the lack of this need.
I have tested that this PKGBUILD does do this correctly, just to be absolutely sure.

A well implemented AUR helper like paru or yay won't need this manual pkgver bump either since it will check the source repository for the changes itself. The pkgver will then be set at runtime by makepkg for use in the pacman package as usual.

TL;DR: Don't push simple pkgver bumps. It's unnecessary, more work for you, and sends an email to anyone with notifications enabled for this package (which is why I noticed). /gen /nm

Thanks!

galister commented on 2026-01-10 11:39 (UTC)

WlxOverlay-S has been rebranded to WayVR. The new AUR package is available here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wayvr-git

TipsyTheCat commented on 2026-01-10 02:02 (UTC)

ok so i got it building and running, so for anyone who just wants a pkgbuild that works to test the latest version i give you this diff:

--- PKGBUILD
+++ PKGBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Maintainer: galister <galister at librevr dot org>

+_newpkgname=wayvr
 _pkgname=wlx-overlay-s
 pkgname=$_pkgname-git
-pkgver=25.4.2.r262.4f78825
+pkgver=test.r157.6cf4c1f
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Access your Wayland/X11 desktop from SteamVR/Monado (OpenVR+OpenXR support)"
 url="https://github.com/galister/wlx-overlay-s"
@@ -27,24 +28,24 @@
 }

 prepare() {
-  cd "$_pkgname/$_pkgname"
+  cd "$_pkgname/$_newpkgname"
   cargo fetch --locked --target "$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's/host: //p')"
 }

 build() {
-  cd "$_pkgname/$_pkgname"
+  cd "$_pkgname/$_newpkgname"
   cargo build --frozen --release --all-features
 }

 check() {
-  cd "$_pkgname/$_pkgname"
+  cd "$_pkgname/$_newpkgname"
   cargo test --frozen --all-features
 }

 package() {
   cd "$_pkgname/"
-  install -Dm0755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin/" "target/release/$_pkgname"
-  cd "$_pkgname/"
-  install -Dm0644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/" "$_pkgname.desktop"
-  install -Dm0644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/" "$_pkgname.png"
+  install -Dm0755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin/" "target/release/$_newpkgname"
+  cd "$_newpkgname/"
+  install -Dm0644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/" "$_newpkgname.desktop"
+  install -Dm0644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/" "$_newpkgname.png"
 }

since this is a sorta dirty patch, i wouldn't recommend this to be pushed to the actual pkgbuild here. i feel like at this point this aur package needs to be renamed to wayvr-git

TipsyTheCat commented on 2026-01-10 01:26 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-10 01:29 (UTC) by TipsyTheCat)

this is also out-of-date due to wlx-overlay-s being renamed to wayvr. should this AUR package be renamed to "wayvr"?

A43 commented on 2025-12-20 19:01 (UTC) (edited on 2025-12-20 19:01 (UTC) by A43)

If you experience issues building this package with the nightly rust toolchain (rustc >1.92.0), attempt to build it with the stable rust toolchain (rustc 1.92.0) instead.

baplar commented on 2025-12-13 00:44 (UTC)

As of commit 603cdb2f2bc8b5d67fe420e52cd7a8c813eb29dc, there needs to be a small fix to the PKGBUILD for the paths of the .desktop and .png files, which have been moved in a subdirectory.

Graith95 commented on 2025-08-31 08:57 (UTC)

I have had issues compiling with the most recent commit. I was able to resolve it by adding shaderc to dependencies and adding 

export CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
export SHADERC_LIB_DIR=/usr/lib

to the environment variables set before pkgver().

Patola commented on 2025-01-09 00:10 (UTC)

So is it a dependency that's causing this issue?

[0:40] [6185] [patola@risadinha wlx-overlay-s-git]% wlx-overlay-s 
wlx-overlay-s: error while loading shared libraries: libjsoncpp.so.25: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[0:40] [6186] [patola@risadinha wlx-overlay-s-git]%

It goes that way even if I compile it locally with makepkg -si. Tried both versions available, one in aur and the other in chaotic-aur. The one in aur (r28) gets automatically changed to r56 even with chaotic disabled:

chaotic-aur/wlx-overlay-s-git 0.6.r56.ab6b5c0-1 [11.31 MiB 27.98 MiB] [Installed]
    Access your Wayland/X11 desktop from SteamVR/Monado (OpenVR+OpenXR support)

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