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.
+Unpacking
+-The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z -is the version. There are three types of compressed archives. -
--There's also the MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which -contain Mark Kilgard's GLUT library. -This is optional. -Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut). -
--In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as -MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}. -Now, the - -Mesa demos are distributed separately. +Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
- -Unpacking
-To unpack .tar.gz files:
@@ -83,15 +77,9 @@ 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/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 MesaGLUT.x.y.z package: --src/glut - GLUT library source code -
Proceed to the compilation and installation @@ -99,5 +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, +
+ +