Downloading
+Downloading
Primary Mesa download site: -freedesktop.org (FTP) +ftp.freedesktop.org (FTP) +or mesa.freedesktop.org +(HTTPS).
-When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found -here. +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).
- --The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z -is the version. There are three types of compressed archives. -
-In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which -contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library. -Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut). -
--In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as -MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}. -Now, the - -Mesa demos are distributed separately. +When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found +in the same directory, and are recognisable by the +mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz filename.
-Unpacking
+Unpacking
-To unpack .tar.gz files: +Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.
+ ++To unpack the tarball:
- tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz --or -
- gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xzor
- gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz-
-To unpack .tar.bz2 files: -
-- bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - --
-To unpack .zip files:
-- unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip -
Contents
@@ -74,23 +62,17 @@ To unpack .zip files: 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 +autogen.sh - Autoconf script for *nix systems +scons/ - SCons script for Windows builds 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 -src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code-If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package: -
-src/glut - GLUT library source code -
Proceed to the compilation and installation @@ -98,5 +80,33 @@ instructions.
- - +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 +
+ ++The Mesa demos collection is available +here +
+ ++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, +
+ +