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- <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
+ The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
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-<h1>Downloading</h1>
+<h1>Downloading and Unpacking</h1>
+
+<h2>Downloading</h2>
<p>
Primary Mesa download site:
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
-(HTTP).
+(HTTPS).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
+year-based. Filenames are in the form <code>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</code>, where
+<code>Y</code> is the year (two digits), <code>N</code> is an incremental number
+(starting at 0) and <code>P</code> is the patch number (0 for the first
+release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/">here</a>.
+in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
+<code>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</code> filename.
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-<h1>Unpacking</h1>
+<h2>Unpacking</h2>
<p>
-Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: <code>.tar.xz</code> and <code>.tar.gz</code>.
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<p>
-To unpack .tar.gz files:
-</p>
-<pre>
- tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
-</pre>
-or
-<pre>
- gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
-</pre>
-or
-<pre>
- gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
-</pre>
-<p>
-To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
+To unpack the tarball:
</p>
<pre>
- bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
</pre>
-<p>
-To unpack .zip files:
-</p>
+<p>or</p>
<pre>
- unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
+ tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
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-<h1>Contents</h1>
-
-<p>
-After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
-</p>
-<pre>
-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
-docs/ - documentation
-src/ - source code for libraries
-src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
-src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
-src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
-</pre>
-
+<h2>Contents</h2>
<p>
Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
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-<h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
+<h2>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h2>
<p>
A package of SGI's GLU library is available
Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
were split off into their own git repositories:
-<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>,
-<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and
-<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>,
+<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut">GLUT</a>,
+<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu">GLU</a> and
+<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos">Demos</a>,
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