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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 in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
  37 <tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
  38 </p>
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  40
  41 <h1>Unpacking</h1>
  42
  43 <p>
  44 Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
  45 </p>
  46
  47 <p>
  48 To unpack .tar.gz files:
  49 </p>
  50 <pre>
  51         tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
  52 </pre>
  53 or
  54 <pre>
  55         gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  56 </pre>
  57 or
  58 <pre>
  59         gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
  60 </pre>
  61 <p>
  62 To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
  63 </p>
  64 <pre>
  65         bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  66 </pre>
  67 <p>
  68 To unpack .zip files:
  69 </p>
  70 <pre>
  71         unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
  72 </pre>
  73
  74
  75 <h1>Contents</h1>
  76
  77 <p>
  78 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  79 </p>
  80 <pre>
  81 Makefile        - top-level Makefile for most systems
  82 configs/        - makefile parameter files for various systems
  83 include/        - GL header (include) files
  84 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  85 docs/           - documentation
  86 src/            - source code for libraries
  87 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  88 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  89 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  90 </pre>
  91
  92
  93 <p>
  94 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  95 instructions</a>.
  96 </p>
  97
  98
  99 <h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
 100
 101 <p>
 102 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
 103 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
 104 </p>
 105
 106 <p>
 107 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
 108 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
 109 </p>
 110
 111 <p>
 112 The Mesa demos collection is available
 113 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
 114 </p>
 115
 116 <p>
 117 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
 118 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
 119 were split off into their own git repositories:
 120
 121 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>,
 122 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and
 123 <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>,
 124 </p>
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