Downloading and Unpacking
+ +Downloading
+ ++You can download the released versions of Mesa via +HTTPS +or +FTP. +
-Primary Mesa download site:
-freedesktop.org (FTP)
+Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
+year-based. Filenames are in the form mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
, where
+Y
is the year (two digits), N
is an incremental number
+(starting at 0) and P
is the patch number (0 for the first
+release, 1 for the first patch after that).
When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
-here.
+in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
+mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz
filename.
Unpacking
+Unpacking
-Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz
and .tar.gz
.
-To unpack .tar.gz files: -
-- tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz --or -
- gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - --or -
- gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar --
-To unpack .tar.bz2 files: +To unpack the tarball:
- bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz-
-To unpack .zip files: -
+or
- unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz-
Contents
- --After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): -
--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/glu - libGLU source code -src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support -- +
Contents
Proceed to the compilation and installation @@ -80,24 +66,33 @@ instructions.
-Demos and GLUT
+Demos, GLUT, and GLU
+
+
+A package of SGI's GLU library is available +here +
A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available -here +here
The Mesa demos collection is available -here +here
-In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with -Mesa releases. But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they -were split off some time ago. -
+In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with +Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they +were split off into their own git repositories: +GLUT, +GLU and +Demos, + +