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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Compiling and Installing</h1>
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  20 <li><a href="#prereq-general">Prerequisites for building</a>
  21   <ul>
  22   <li><a href="#prereq-general">General prerequisites</a>
  23   <li><a href="#prereq-dri">For DRI and hardware acceleration</a>
  24   </ul>
  25 <li><a href="#autoconf">Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)</a>
  26 <li><a href="#scons">Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)</a>
  27 <li><a href="#other">Building for other systems</a>
  28 <li><a href="#libs">Library Information</a>
  29 <li><a href="#pkg-config">Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config</a>
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  33 <h1 id="prereq-general">1. Prerequisites for building</h1>
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  35 <h2>1.1 General</h2>
  36 <ul>
  37 <li>lex / yacc - for building the GLSL compiler.
  38 On Linux systems, flex and bison are used.
  39 Versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively, (or later) should work.
  40 <br>
  41 <br>
  42 On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
  43 <pre>mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison</pre>
  44 </li>
  45 <li>python - Python is needed for building the Gallium components.
  46 Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
  47 </li>
  48 </ul>
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  50
  51 <h3 id="prereq-dri">1.2 For DRI and hardware acceleration</h3>
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  53 <p>
  54 The following are required for DRI-based hardware acceleration with Mesa:
  55 </p>
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  57 <ul>
  58 <li><a href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/">
  59 dri2proto</a> version 2.6 or later
  60 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/">libDRM</a>
  61 version 2.4.33 or later
  62 <li>Xorg server version 1.5 or later
  63 <li>Linux 2.6.28 or later
  64 </ul>
  65 <p>
  66 If you're using a fedora distro the following command should install all
  67 the needed dependencies:
  68 </p>
  69 <pre>
  70   sudo yum install flex bison imake libtool xorg-x11-proto-devel libdrm-devel \
  71   gcc-c++ xorg-x11-server-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel libXdamage-devel git \
  72   expat-devel llvm-devel
  73 </pre>
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  76
  77 <h1 id="autoconf">2. Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)</h1>
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  79 <p>
  80 The primary method to build Mesa on Unix systems is with autoconf.
  81 </p>
  82
  83 <p>
  84 The general approach is the standard:
  85 </p>
  86 <pre>
  87   ./configure
  88   make
  89   sudo make install
  90 </pre>
  91 <p>
  92 But please read the <a href="autoconf.html">detailed autoconf instructions</a>
  93 for more details.
  94 </p>
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  97
  98 <h1 id="scons">3. Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)</h1>
  99
 100 <p>
 101 To build Mesa with SCons on Linux or Windows do
 102 </p>
 103 <pre>
 104     scons
 105 </pre>
 106 <p>
 107 The build output will be placed in
 108 build/<i>platform</i>-<i>machine</i>-<i>debug</i>/..., where <i>platform</i> is for
 109 example linux or windows, <i>machine</i> is x86 or x86_64, optionally followed
 110 by -debug for debug builds.
 111 </p>
 112
 113 <p>
 114 To build Mesa with SCons for Windows on Linux using the MinGW crosscompiler toolchain do
 115 </p>
 116 <pre>
 117     scons platform=windows toolchain=crossmingw machine=x86 mesagdi libgl-gdi
 118 </pre>
 119 <p>
 120 This will create:
 121 </p>
 122 <ul>
 123 <li>build/windows-x86-debug/mesa/drivers/windows/gdi/opengl32.dll &mdash; Mesa + swrast, binary compatible with Windows's opengl32.dll
 124 <li>build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll &mdash; Mesa + Gallium + softpipe, binary compatible with Windows's opengl32.dll
 125 </ul>
 126 <p>
 127 Put them all in the same directory to test them.
 128 </p>
 129
 130
 131
 132 <h1 id="other">4. Building for other systems</h1>
 133
 134 <p>
 135 Documentation for other environments (some may be very out of date):
 136 </p>
 137
 138 <ul>
 139 <li><a href="README.VMS">README.VMS</a> - VMS
 140 <li><a href="README.CYGWIN">README.CYGWIN</a> - Cygwin
 141 <li><a href="README.WIN32">README.WIN32</a> - Win32
 142 </ul>
 143
 144
 145
 146 <h1 id="libs">5. Library Information</h1>
 147
 148 <p>
 149 When compilation has finished, look in the top-level <code>lib/</code>
 150 (or <code>lib64/</code>) directory.
 151 You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
 152 </p>
 153 <pre>
 154 lrwxrwxrwx    1 brian    users          10 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1*
 155 lrwxrwxrwx    1 brian    users          19 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.5.060100*
 156 -rwxr-xr-x    1 brian    users     3375861 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1.5.060100*
 157 lrwxrwxrwx    1 brian    users          14 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so -> libOSMesa.so.6*
 158 lrwxrwxrwx    1 brian    users          23 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6 -> libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
 159 -rwxr-xr-x    1 brian    users       23871 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
 160 </pre>
 161
 162 <p>
 163 <b>libGL</b> is the main OpenGL library (i.e. Mesa).
 164 <br>
 165 <b>libOSMesa</b> is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library.
 166 </p>
 167
 168 <p>
 169 If you built the DRI hardware drivers, you'll also see the DRI drivers:
 170 </p>
 171 <pre>
 172 -rwxr-xr-x   1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i915_dri.so
 173 -rwxr-xr-x   1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i965_dri.so
 174 -rwxr-xr-x   1 brian users 11849858 Jul 21 12:12 r200_dri.so
 175 -rwxr-xr-x   1 brian users 11757388 Jul 21 12:12 radeon_dri.so
 176 </pre>
 177
 178 <p>
 179 If you built with Gallium support, look in lib/gallium/ for Gallium-based
 180 versions of libGL and device drivers.
 181 </p>
 182
 183
 184 <h1 id="pkg-config">6. Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config</h1>
 185
 186 <p>
 187 Running <code>make install</code> will install package configuration files
 188 for the pkg-config utility.
 189 </p>
 190
 191 <p>
 192 When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine
 193 the proper compiler and linker flags.
 194 </p>
 195
 196 <p>
 197 For example, compiling and linking a GLUT application can be done with:
 198 </p>
 199 <pre>
 200    gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glut` mydemo.c -o mydemo
 201 </pre>
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