Downloading and Unpacking
-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
+(HTTPS).
-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.
+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 is distributed in several parts: -
--
-
- 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. -
+Unpacking
-If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages.
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.
-The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. -Other sites might offer additional package formats. -
- -Unpacking
- --All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. +To unpack the tarball:
- --
-
- 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 -- gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - -
-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 -
- - 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 - + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
- - To unpack .zip files:
+
or
- unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip + tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
-
Contents
+Contents
-After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): +Proceed to the compilation and installation +instructions.
--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/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 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 -+
Demos, GLUT, and GLU
-If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: --src/glut - GLUT library source code -+
+A package of SGI's GLU library is available +here +
-Proceed to the compilation and installation -instructions. +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, +
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