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11 The Mesa
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17 <h1>Compiling and Installing
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20 <li><a href=
"#prereq-general">Prerequisites for building
</a>
22 <li><a href=
"#prereq-general">General prerequisites
</a>
23 <li><a href=
"#prereq-dri">For DRI and hardware acceleration
</a>
25 <li><a href=
"#meson">Building with meson
</a>
26 <li><a href=
"#autoconf">Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)
</a>
27 <li><a href=
"#scons">Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)
</a>
28 <li><a href=
"#android">Building with AOSP (Android)
</a>
29 <li><a href=
"#libs">Library Information
</a>
30 <li><a href=
"#pkg-config">Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
</a>
34 <h2 id=
"prereq-general">1. Prerequisites for building
</h2>
41 <li><a href=
"https://mesonbuild.com">meson
</a> is required when building on *nix platforms.
42 <li>Autoconf was removed in
19.1.0, use meson instead
43 <li><a href=
"http://www.scons.org/">SCons
</a> is required for building on
44 Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to meson.)
46 <li>Android Build system when building as native Android component. Autoconf
47 is used when when building ARC.
54 The following compilers are known to work, if you know of others or you're
55 willing to maintain support for other compiler get in touch.
59 <li>GCC
4.2.0 or later (some parts of Mesa may require later versions)
60 <li>clang - exact minimum requirement is currently unknown.
61 <li>Microsoft Visual Studio
2015 or later is required, for building on Windows.
65 <h4>Third party/extra tools.
</h4>
67 <strong>Note
</strong>: These should not be required, when building from a release tarball. If
68 you think you've spotted a bug let developers know by filing a
69 <a href=
"bugs.html">bug report
</a>.
74 <li><a href=
"https://www.python.org/">Python
</a> - Python is required.
75 When building with scons
2.7 is required.
76 When building with meson
3.5 or newer is required.
78 <li><a href=
"http://www.makotemplates.org/">Python Mako module
</a> -
79 Python Mako module is required. Version
0.8.0 or later should work.
81 <li>lex / yacc - for building the Mesa IR and GLSL compiler.
83 On Linux systems, flex and bison versions
2.5.35 and
2.4.1, respectively,
84 (or later) should work.
85 On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
86 <pre>mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison
</pre>
87 For MSVC on Windows, install
88 <a href=
"http://winflexbison.sourceforge.net/">Win flex-bison
</a>.
91 <p><strong>Note
</strong>: Some versions can be buggy (eg. flex
2.6.2) so do try others if things fail.
</p>
94 <h3 id=
"prereq-dri">1.2 Requirements
</h3>
97 The requirements depends on the features selected at configure stage.
98 Check/install the respective -devel package as prompted by the configure error
103 Here are some common ways to retrieve most/all of the dependencies based on
104 the packaging tool used by your distro.
108 zypper source-install --build-deps-only Mesa # openSUSE/SLED/SLES
109 yum-builddep mesa # yum Fedora, OpenSuse(?)
110 dnf builddep mesa # dnf Fedora
111 apt-get build-dep mesa # Debian and derivatives
115 <h2 id=
"meson">2. Building with meson
</h2>
118 Meson is the latest build system in mesa, it is currently able to build for
119 *nix systems like Linux and BSD, and will be able to build for windows as well.
123 The general approach is:
128 sudo ninja -C builddir/ install
131 Please read the
<a href=
"meson.html">detailed meson instructions
</a>
135 <h2 id=
"autoconf">3. Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)
</h2>
138 Autoconf support was removed in Mesa
19.1.0. Please use meson instead.
143 <h2 id=
"scons">4. Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)
</h2>
146 To build Mesa with SCons on Linux or Windows do
152 The build output will be placed in
153 build/
<i>platform
</i>-
<i>machine
</i>-
<i>debug
</i>/..., where
<i>platform
</i> is for
154 example linux or windows,
<i>machine
</i> is x86 or x86_64, optionally followed
155 by -debug for debug builds.
159 To build Mesa with SCons for Windows on Linux using the MinGW crosscompiler toolchain do
162 scons platform=windows toolchain=crossmingw machine=x86 libgl-gdi
168 <li>build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll
— Mesa + Gallium + softpipe (or llvmpipe), binary compatible with Windows's opengl32.dll
171 Put them all in the same directory to test them.
173 Additional information is available in
<a href=
"README.WIN32">README.WIN32
</a>.
179 <h2 id=
"android">5. Building with AOSP (Android)
</h2>
182 Currently one can build Mesa for Android as part of the AOSP project, yet
183 your experience might vary.
187 In order to achieve that one should update their local manifest to point to the
188 upstream repo, set the appropriate BOARD_GPU_DRIVERS and build the
189 libGLES_mesa library.
193 FINISHME: Improve on the instructions add references to Rob H repos/Jenkins,
194 Android-x86 and/or other resources.
198 <h2 id=
"libs">6. Library Information
</h2>
201 When compilation has finished, look in the top-level
<code>lib/
</code>
202 (or
<code>lib64/
</code>) directory.
203 You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
206 lrwxrwxrwx
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.1.5.060100*
208 -rwxr-xr-x
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.1.5.060100*
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> libOSMesa.so
.6*
210 lrwxrwxrwx
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.6 -
> libOSMesa.so
.6.1.060100*
211 -rwxr-xr-x
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.6.1.060100*
215 <b>libGL
</b> is the main OpenGL library (i.e. Mesa), while
<b>libOSMesa
</b>
216 is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library.
220 If you built the DRI hardware drivers, you'll also see the DRI drivers:
223 -rwxr-xr-x
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230 If you built with Gallium support, look in lib/gallium/ for Gallium-based
231 versions of libGL and device drivers.
235 <h2 id=
"pkg-config">7. Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
</h2>
238 Running
<code>ninja install
</code> will install package configuration files
239 for the pkg-config utility.
243 When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine
244 the proper compiler and linker flags.
248 For example, compiling and linking a GLUT application can be done with:
251 gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glut` mydemo.c -o mydemo