Downloading
+Downloading
-Current development release: 7.1
-
-Last stable release: 7.0.4
+Primary Mesa download site:
+ftp.freedesktop.org (FTP)
+or mesa.freedesktop.org
+(HTTP).
-Primary download site: -SourceForge +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) can be found -here. -
- - --Mesa is distributed in several parts: +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.
--
-
- MesaLib-x.y.z - the main Mesa library source code, drivers - and documentation. - -
- MesaDemos-x.y.z - OpenGL demonstration and test programs. - Most of the programs require GLUT (either the - original GLUT by Mark Kilgard or - freeglut or - OpenGLUT). - -
- MesaGLUT-x.y.z - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used - with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc. - -
-If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first -package. -
--If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages. -
+Unpacking
-The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. -Other sites might offer additional package formats. +Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.
-Unpacking
--All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. -
- --
-
- To unpack .tar.gz files:
-
- tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz - tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz - tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz -
-or +To unpack the tarball:- gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
or- 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 + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
- - To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
-
- 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 - -
- - To unpack .zip files:
-
- unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip -
-
Contents
@@ -105,32 +62,17 @@ or 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/glu - libGLU source code +src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers 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 MesaDemos.X.Y package: - -
-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 -- -If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: -
-src/glut - GLUT library source code -
Proceed to the compilation and installation @@ -138,5 +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, +
+ +