Downloading
+Downloading and Unpacking
+ +Downloading
Primary Mesa download site: ftp.freedesktop.org (FTP) or mesa.freedesktop.org -(HTTP). +(HTTPS).
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
+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
in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
-mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz filename.
+mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz filename.
Unpacking
+Unpacking
-Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.
To unpack the tarball: +
tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz-or +
or
tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz- - - -
Contents
--After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): -
--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/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support -+
Contents
Proceed to the compilation and installation @@ -80,7 +66,7 @@ instructions.
-Demos, GLUT, and GLU
+Demos, GLUT, and GLU
A package of SGI's GLU library is available @@ -102,9 +88,9 @@ 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, +GLUT, +GLU and +Demos,