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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Downloading</h1>
  18
  19 <p>
  20 Primary Mesa download site:
  21 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  22 or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
  23 (HTTP).
  24 </p>
  25
  26 <p>
  27 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
  28 year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
  29 <tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
  30 (starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
  31 release, 1 for the first patch after that).
  32 </p>
  33
  34 <p>
  35 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  36 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/">here</a>.
  37 </p>
  38
  39
  40 <h1>Unpacking</h1>
  41
  42 <p>
  43 Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
  44 </p>
  45
  46 <p>
  47 To unpack .tar.gz files:
  48 </p>
  49 <pre>
  50         tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
  51 </pre>
  52 or
  53 <pre>
  54         gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  55 </pre>
  56 or
  57 <pre>
  58         gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
  59 </pre>
  60 <p>
  61 To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
  62 </p>
  63 <pre>
  64         bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  65 </pre>
  66 <p>
  67 To unpack .zip files:
  68 </p>
  69 <pre>
  70         unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
  71 </pre>
  72
  73
  74 <h1>Contents</h1>
  75
  76 <p>
  77 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  78 </p>
  79 <pre>
  80 Makefile        - top-level Makefile for most systems
  81 configs/        - makefile parameter files for various systems
  82 include/        - GL header (include) files
  83 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  84 docs/           - documentation
  85 src/            - source code for libraries
  86 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  87 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  88 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  89 </pre>
  90
  91
  92 <p>
  93 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  94 instructions</a>.
  95 </p>
  96
  97
  98 <h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
  99
 100 <p>
 101 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
 102 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
 103 </p>
 104
 105 <p>
 106 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
 107 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
 108 </p>
 109
 110 <p>
 111 The Mesa demos collection is available
 112 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
 113 </p>
 114
 115 <p>
 116 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
 117 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
 118 were split off into their own git repositories:
 119
 120 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>,
 121 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and
 122 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>,
 123 </p>
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