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   7 <H1>Downloading / Unpacking</H1>
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   9 <p>
  10 Mesa can be downloaded from the
  11 <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" target="_parent">
  12 SourceForge download area</A>.
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  16 Since version 2.3, Mesa is distributed in two pieces:  main library code
  17 and demos.  If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mesa or you're not
  18 interested in the demos you can just download the core Mesa archive file.
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  21 <p>
  22 Mesa is available in at least three archive formats:
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  25 <pre>
  26 1. GNU zip/tar
  27
  28         Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
  29         Unpack with:
  30                 gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
  31                 gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
  32         or
  33                 gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
  34                 gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
  35         or
  36                 tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
  37                 tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
  38
  39         If you don't have gzcat try zcat instead.
  40
  41 2. Unix compressed/tar
  42
  43         Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z
  44         Unpack with:
  45                 zcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
  46                 zcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
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  48 3. ZIP format
  49
  50         Download MesaLib-X.Y.zip and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
  51         Unpack with:
  52                 unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
  53                 unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
  54 </pre>
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  56 <p>
  57 After unpacking you'll have these directories (and more):
  58 </p>
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  60 Makefile.X11    - "old" top-level Makefile for X11-based systems
  61 Make-config     - system configurations used by the Makefile.X11
  62 configure       - the GNU autoconf script
  63 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  64 include/        - GL header (include) files
  65 lib/            - client libraries, created during installation
  66 src/            - source code for the main libGL library
  67 si-glu/         - SGI Sample Implementation of libGLU
  68 src-glu/        - old source code for libGLU (obsolete)
  69 docs/           - documentation
  70 util/           - handly utility functions
  71 widgets-mesa/   - Mesa widgets for Xt/Motif (obsolete)
  72 widgets-sgi/    - SGI OpenGL widgets for Xt/Motif
  73
  74 and if you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y archive:
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  76 src-glut/       - source code for GLUT toolkit
  77 demos/          - GLUT demos
  78 xdemos/         - X11 and SVGA demo programs
  79 samples/        - sample OpenGL programs from SGI
  80 book/           - example programs from the OpenGL Programming Guide,
  81                   converted to GLUT by Mark Kilgard, from GLUT distribution.
  82 images/         - image files
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  84 </pre>
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  86 <p>
  87 Proceed to <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  88 instructions</a>.
  89 </p>
  90
  91 <H1>GLUT</H1>
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  94 Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
  95 GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.
  96 </p>
  97 <p>
  98 The GLUT tests, demos, examples, etc are not included, just the main library.
  99 To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit the
 100 <a href="http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/index.html"
 101 target ="_parent">GLUT homepage</a>
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