Downloading / Unpacking

Downloading and Unpacking

+ +

Downloading

-Mesa can be downloaded from the - -SourceForge download area. +Primary Mesa download site: +ftp.freedesktop.org (FTP) +or mesa.freedesktop.org +(HTTPS).

-Since version 2.3, Mesa is distributed in two pieces: main library code -and demos. If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mesa or you're not -interested in the demos you can just download the core Mesa archive file. +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).

-Mesa is available in at least three archive formats: +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.

-1. GNU zip/tar
-
-	Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
-	Unpack with:
-		gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
-		gzcat MesaDemos-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 MesaLib-X.Y.tar
-	or
-		tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
-		tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
-
-	If you don't have gzcat try zcat instead.
-
-2. Unix compressed/tar
-
-	Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z
-	Unpack with:
-		zcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
-		zcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
-
-3. ZIP format
-
-	Download MesaLib-X.Y.zip and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
-	Unpack with:
-		unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
-		unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
-

+ +

Unpacking

-After unpacking you'll have these directories (and more): +Mesa releases are available in two formats: .tar.xz and .tar.gz.

-Makefile.X11	- "old" top-level Makefile for X11-based systems
-Make-config	- system configurations used by the Makefile.X11
-configure	- the GNU autoconf script
-bin/		- shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
-include/	- GL header (include) files
-lib/		- client libraries, created during installation
-src/		- source code for the main libGL library
-si-glu/		- SGI Sample Implementation of libGLU
-src-glu/	- old source code for libGLU (obsolete)
-docs/		- documentation
-util/		- handly utility functions
-widgets-mesa/	- Mesa widgets for Xt/Motif (obsolete)
-widgets-sgi/	- SGI OpenGL widgets for Xt/Motif
-
-and if you downloaded and unpacked the demos:
-
-src-glut/	- source code for GLUT toolkit
-demos/		- GLUT demos
-xdemos/		- X11 and SVGA demo programs
-samples/	- sample OpenGL programs from SGI
-book/		- example programs from the OpenGL Programming Guide,
-		  converted to GLUT by Mark Kilgard, from GLUT distribution.
-images/		- image files
 
+
+To unpack the tarball:
+
++	tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
+
+or
++	tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
 
 
+
+Contents
+
 
-Proceed to compilation and installation
+Proceed to the compilation and installation
 instructions.
 
 
-GLUT
+
+Demos, GLUT, and GLU
+
+
+A package of SGI's GLU library is available
+here
+
 
 
-Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
-GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.
+A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
+here
 
+
 
-The GLUT tests, demos, examples, etc are not included, just the main library.
-To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit the
-GLUT homepage
+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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