Downloading
+Downloading
Primary Mesa download site: -freedesktop.org (FTP) +ftp.freedesktop.org (FTP) +or mesa.freedesktop.org +(HTTP).
When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found -here. +here.
--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. -
- --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 three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
-Unpacking
--All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. +To unpack .tar.gz files:
- --
-
- 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 + tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.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 - + gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.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 + gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
- - To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
+
+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 - + bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
- - To unpack .zip files:
+
+To unpack .zip files: +
- unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip + unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
-
Contents
@@ -106,25 +76,10 @@ 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 @@ -132,5 +87,33 @@ 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, +
+ +