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-<H1>Downloading / Unpacking</H1>
+<H1>Downloading</H1>
<p>
-Mesa can be downloaded from the
-<a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" target="_parent">
-SourceForge download area</A>.
+Primary Mesa download site:
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
+target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
</p>
<p>
-Since version 2.3, Mesa is distributed in two pieces: main library code
-and demos. If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mesa or you're not
-interested in the demos you can just download the core Mesa archive file.
+When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
</p>
+
+<p>
+Mesa is distributed in several parts:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers
+ and documentation.
+</li>
+<li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs.
+ Most of the programs require GLUT (either the
+ <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut"
+ target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or
+ <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or
+ <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>).
+</li>
+<li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used
+ with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first
+package.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats.
+Other sites might offer additional package formats.
+</p>
+
+<H1>Unpacking</H1>
+
<p>
-Mesa is available in at least three archive formats:
+All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking.
</p>
+<ul>
+<li>To unpack .tar.gz files:
+<pre>
+ tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
+ tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
+ tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz
+</pre>
+or
+<pre>
+ gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+</pre>
+or
<pre>
-1. GNU zip/tar
-
- Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
- Unpack with:
- gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
- gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
- or
- gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
- gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
- or
- tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
- tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
-
- If you don't have gzcat try zcat instead.
-
-2. Unix compressed/tar
-
- Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z
- Unpack with:
- zcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
- zcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
-
-3. ZIP format
-
- Download MesaLib-X.Y.zip and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
- Unpack with:
- unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
- unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
+ gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
+ gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar
+ gunzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar
</pre>
+<li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
+<pre>
+ bunzip2 -c MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ bunzip2 -c MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ bunzip2 -c MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
+</pre>
+<li>To unpack .zip files:
+<pre>
+ unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
+ unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
+ unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip
+</pre>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h1>Contents</h1>
<p>
-After unpacking you'll have these directories (and more):
+After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
</p>
<pre>
-Makefile.X11 - top-level Makefile for X11-based systems
-Make-config - system configurations used by the Makefile.X11
+Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
+configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems
include/ - GL header (include) files
bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
-lib/ - final client libraries, created during compilation
docs/ - documentation
src/ - source code for libraries
src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
src/glu - libGLU source code
+src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
+</pre>
+If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package:
-and if you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y archive:
-
-src/glut - GLUT source code
-progs/ - OpenGL programs
+<pre>
progs/demos - original Mesa demos
progs/xdemos - GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos
progs/redbook - examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide
progs/samples - examples from SGI
progs/images/ - image files
+</pre>
+If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package:
+<pre>
+src/glut - GLUT library source code
</pre>
<p>
-Proceed to <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
+Proceed to
the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
instructions</a>.
</p>
-<H1>GLUT</H1>
-
-<p>
-Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
-GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.
-</p>
-<p>
-The GLUT tests, demos, examples, etc are not included, just the main library.
-To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit the
-<a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.html"
-target ="_parent">GLUT page</a> on www.opengl.org.
-</p>
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