Compiling and Installing
+Compiling and Installing
-
-
- Unix / X11 +
- Prerequisites for building -
- Windows -
- SCons -
- Other +
- Building with meson +
- Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11) +
- Building with SCons (Windows/Linux) +
- Building with AOSP (Android) +
- Library Information +
- Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
- -
1. Unix/X11 Compilation and Installation
+1. Prerequisites for building
-
-
-1.1 Prerequisites for DRI and hardware acceleration
+1.1 General
-The following are required for DRI-based hardware acceleration with Mesa:
+Build system.
-- dri2proto version 1.99.3 or later
-
- Linux 2.6.28
-
- libDRM
-version 2.4.15 or later
-
- Xorg server version 1.5 or later
+
- meson is recommended when building on *nix platforms.
+
- Autoconf is another option when building on *nix platforms.
+
- SCons is required for building on
+Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to autoconf/automake or meson.)
+
+- Android Build system when building as native Android component. Autoconf
+is used when when building ARC.
+
-
-
-
-1.2 Building with Autoconf
-Mesa may be built using autoconf.
-This should work well on most GNU-based systems.
-If that fails the traditional Mesa build system is available.
-
+The following compilers are known to work, if you know of others or you're
+willing to maintain support for other compiler get in touch.
+
+
+- GCC 4.2.0 or later (some parts of Mesa may require later versions)
+
- clang - exact minimum requirement is currently unknown.
+
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later is required, for building on Windows.
+
-
-1.3 Building with traditional Makefiles
-The traditional Mesa build system is based on a collection of pre-defined
-system configurations.
-
-
-To see the list of configurations, just type make
.
-Then choose a configuration from the list and type make
-configname.
+Third party/extra tools.
+
+Note: These should not be required, when building from a release tarball. If
+you think you've spotted a bug let developers know by filing a
+bug report.
-
-Mesa may be built in several different ways using the predefined configurations:
-
+
-- Stand-alone/Xlib mode - Mesa will be compiled as
-a software renderer using Xlib to do all rendering.
-The libGL.so library will be a self-contained rendering library that will
-allow you to run OpenGL/GLX applications on any X server (regardless of
-whether it supports the GLX X server extension).
-You will not be able to use hardware 3D acceleration.
-
-To compile stand-alone Mesa type make
in the top-level directory.
-You'll see a list of supported system configurations.
-Choose one from the list (such as linux-x86), and type:
-
-
- make linux-x86
-
-This will produce libGL.so and several other libraries
+ - Python - Python is required.
+When building with scons 2.7 is required.
+When building with meson 3.5 or newer is required.
+When building with autotools 2.7, or 3.5 or later are required.
+
+- Python Mako module -
+Python Mako module is required. Version 0.8.0 or later should work.
+- lex / yacc - for building the Mesa IR and GLSL compiler.
+
+On Linux systems, flex and bison versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively,
+(or later) should work.
+On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
+
mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison
+For MSVC on Windows, install
+Win flex-bison.
+
+
+Note: Some versions can be buggy (eg. flex 2.6.2) so do try others if things fail.
-DRI/accelerated - The DRI hardware drivers for
-accelerated OpenGL rendering (for ATI, Intel, Matrox, etc) will be built.
-The libGL.so library will support the GLX extension and will load/use
-the DRI hardware drivers.
+1.2 Requirements
-Build Mesa and the DRI hardware drivers by running
-
-
- make linux-dri
-
-
-There are also linux-dri-x86
, linux-dri-x86-64
,
-and linux-ppc
configurations which are optimized for those
-architectures.
+The requirements depends on the features selected at configure stage.
+Check/install the respective -devel package as prompted by the configure error
+message.
+
-Make sure you have the prerequisite versions of DRM and Xserver mentioned
-above.
+Here are some common ways to retrieve most/all of the dependencies based on
+the packaging tool used by your distro.
-
-
-
+
+ zypper source-install --build-deps-only Mesa # openSUSE/SLED/SLES
+ yum-builddep mesa # yum Fedora, OpenSuse(?)
+ dnf builddep mesa # dnf Fedora
+ apt-get build-dep mesa # Debian and derivatives
+ ... # others
+
+2. Building with meson
-Later, if you want to rebuild for a different configuration run
-make realclean
before rebuilding.
+Meson is the latest build system in mesa, it is currently able to build for
+*nix systems like Linux and BSD, and will be able to build for windows as well.
-
-
-1.4 The libraries
-
-When compilation has finished, look in the top-level lib/
-(or lib64/
) directory.
-You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
+The general approach is:
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 10 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 19 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.5.060100*
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 3375861 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1.5.060100*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 11 Mar 26 07:53 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 20 Mar 26 07:53 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.060100*
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 549269 Mar 26 07:53 libGLU.so.1.3.060100*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 12 Mar 26 07:53 libglut.so -> libglut.so.3*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 16 Mar 26 07:53 libglut.so.3 -> libglut.so.3.7.1*
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 597754 Mar 26 07:53 libglut.so.3.7.1*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 11 Mar 26 08:04 libGLw.so -> libGLw.so.1*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 15 Mar 26 08:04 libGLw.so.1 -> libGLw.so.1.0.0*
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 20750 Mar 26 08:04 libGLw.so.1.0.0*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 14 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so -> libOSMesa.so.6*
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 23 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6 -> libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 23871 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
+ meson builddir/
+ ninja -C builddir/
+ sudo ninja -C builddir/ install
+
+Please read the detailed meson instructions
+for more information
+
+
+3. Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)
-libGL is the main OpenGL library (i.e. Mesa).
-
-libGLU is the OpenGL Utility library.
-
-libglut is the GLUT library.
-
-libGLw is the Xt/Motif OpenGL drawing area widget library.
-
-libOSMesa is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library.
+Although meson is recommended, another supported way to build on *nix systems
+is with autoconf.
-If you built the DRI hardware drivers, you'll also see the DRI drivers:
+The general approach is the standard:
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 15607851 Jul 21 12:11 ffb_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 15148747 Jul 21 12:11 i810_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 14497814 Jul 21 12:11 i830_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i915_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11320803 Jul 21 12:11 mach64_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11418014 Jul 21 12:12 mga_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11064426 Jul 21 12:12 r128_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11849858 Jul 21 12:12 r200_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16050488 Jul 21 12:11 r300_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11757388 Jul 21 12:12 radeon_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11232304 Jul 21 12:13 s3v_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11062970 Jul 21 12:13 savage_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11214212 Jul 21 12:13 sis_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11368736 Jul 21 12:13 tdfx_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 10598868 Jul 21 12:13 trident_dri.so
--rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 10997120 Jul 21 12:13 unichrome_dri.so
+ ./configure
+ make
+ sudo make install
-
-
-
-1.5 Running the demos
-
-If you downloaded/unpacked the MesaDemos-x.y.z.tar.gz archive or
-obtained Mesa from CVS, the progs/ directory will contain a
-bunch of demonstration programs.
+But please read the detailed autoconf instructions
+for more details.
-
-Before running a demo, you'll probably have to set two environment variables
-to indicate where the libraries are located. For example:
-
-
-cd lib/
-
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD}
-
-export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=${PWD} (if using DRI drivers)
-
-
-Next, change to the Mesa/demos/ directory:
-
-
-cd ../progs/demos
-
-
-Run a demo such as gears:
-
-
-./gears
-
+4. Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)
-If this doesn't work, try the Mesa/progs/xdemos/glxinfo program
-and see that it prints the expected Mesa version number.
+To build Mesa with SCons on Linux or Windows do
-
+
+ scons
+
-If you're using Linux or a similar OS, verify that the demo program is
-being linked with the proper library files:
+The build output will be placed in
+build/platform-machine-debug/..., where platform is for
+example linux or windows, machine is x86 or x86_64, optionally followed
+by -debug for debug builds.
-
-ldd gears
-
-You should see something like this:
+To build Mesa with SCons for Windows on Linux using the MinGW crosscompiler toolchain do
- libglut.so.3 => /home/brian/Mesa/lib/libglut.so.3 (0x40013000)
- libGLU.so.1 => /home/brian/Mesa/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x40051000)
- libGL.so.1 => /home/brian/Mesa/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x400e0000)
- libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
- libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x403da000)
- libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x403fc000)
- libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x404da000)
- libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x404f1000)
- libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40543000)
- libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4054b000)
- libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x405fd000)
- libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40605000)
- libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x40613000)
- /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
- libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40644000)
- libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40647000)
- libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40650000)
+ scons platform=windows toolchain=crossmingw machine=x86 libgl-gdi
-
-Retrace your steps if this doesn't look right.
+This will create:
+
+- build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll — Mesa + Gallium + softpipe (or llvmpipe), binary compatible with Windows's opengl32.dll
+
+
+Put them all in the same directory to test them.
+Additional information is available in README.WIN32.
-
-1.6 Installing the header and library files
-
-
-The standard location for the OpenGL header files on Unix-type systems is
-in /usr/include/GL/
.
-The standard location for the libraries is /usr/lib/
.
-For more information see, the
-
-Linux/OpenGL ABI specification.
-
-If you'd like Mesa to co-exist with another implementation of OpenGL that's
-already installed, you'll have to choose different directories, like
-/usr/local/include/GL/
and /usr/local/lib/
.
-
+
+
+5. Building with AOSP (Android)
-To install Mesa's headers and libraries, run make install
.
-But first, check the Mesa/configs/default file and examine the values
-of the INSTALL_DIR and DRI_DRIVER_INSTALL_DIR variables.
-Change them if needed, then run make install
.
+Currently one can build Mesa for Android as part of the AOSP project, yet
+your experience might vary.
-The variable
-DESTDIR may also be used to install the contents to a temporary
-staging directory.
-This can be useful for package management.
-For example: make install DESTDIR=/somepath/
+In order to achieve that one should update their local manifest to point to the
+upstream repo, set the appropriate BOARD_GPU_DRIVERS and build the
+libGLES_mesa library.
-Note: at runtime you can use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
-(on Linux at least) to switch
-between the Mesa libraries and other vendor's libraries whenever you want.
-This is a handy way to compare multiple OpenGL implementations.
+FINISHME: Improve on the instructions add references to Rob H repos/Jenkins,
+Android-x86 and/or other resources.
-
-1.7 Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
+6. Library Information
-Running make install
will install package configuration files
-for the pkg-config utility.
+When compilation has finished, look in the top-level lib/
+(or lib64/
) directory.
+You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
+
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 10 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1*
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 19 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.5.060100*
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 3375861 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1.5.060100*
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 14 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so -> libOSMesa.so.6*
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 23 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6 -> libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 23871 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100*
+
-When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine
-the proper compiler and linker flags.
+libGL is the main OpenGL library (i.e. Mesa).
+
+libOSMesa is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library.
-For example, compiling and linking a GLUT application can be done with:
+If you built the DRI hardware drivers, you'll also see the DRI drivers:
- gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glut` mydemo.c -o mydemo
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i915_dri.so
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i965_dri.so
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11849858 Jul 21 12:12 r200_dri.so
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11757388 Jul 21 12:12 radeon_dri.so
-
-
-
-2. Windows Compilation and Installation
-
-Please see the instructions on building with SCons.
-Alternatively see README.WIN32 file.
+If you built with Gallium support, look in lib/gallium/ for Gallium-based
+versions of libGL and device drivers.
+7. Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
-
-3. Building with SCons
-
-
-To build Mesa with SCons on Linux or Windows do
-
-
- scons
-
-The build output will be placed in
-build/platform-machine-debug/..., where platform is for
-example linux or windows, machine is x86 or x86_64, optionally followed
-by -debug for debug builds.
+Running make install
will install package configuration files
+for the pkg-config utility.
-The sample programs are built seperately. To build them do
-
- scons -C progs
-
-And the build output will be placed in progs/build/...
+When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine
+the proper compiler and linker flags.
-To build Mesa with SCons for Windows on Linux using the MinGW crosscompiler toolchain do
+For example, compiling and linking a GLUT application can be done with:
- scons platform=windows toolchain=crossmingw machine=x86 statetrackers=mesa drivers=softpipe,trace winsys=gdi
- scons -C progs platform=windows toolchain=crossmingw machine=x86 -k
+ gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glut` mydemo.c -o mydemo
-
-This will create:
-
-
-- build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/winsys/gdi/opengl32.dll — Mesa + Gallium + softpipe, binary compatible with Windows's opengl32.dll
-
- build/windows-x86-debug/glut/glx/glut32.dll
-
- progs/build/windows-x86-debug/wgl/wglinfo.exe
-
- progs/build/windows-x86-debug/trivial/tri.exe
-
- and many other samples in progs/build/windows-x86-debug/...
-
-
-Put them all in the same directory to test them.
-
-
-
-
-4. Other systems
-
-
-Documentation for other environments (some may be very out of date):
-
-
-
-- README.VMS - VMS
-
- README.GGI - GGI
-
- README.3DFX - 3Dfx/Glide driver
-
- README.AMIWIN - Amiga Amiwin
-
- README.BEOS - BeOS
-
- README.D3D - Direct3D driver
-
- README.DJ - DJGPP
-
- README.LYNXOS - LynxOS
-
- README.MINGW32 - Mingw32
-
- README.NeXT - NeXT
-
- README.OpenStep - OpenStep
-
- README.OS2 - OS/2
-
- README.WINDML - WindML
-
-
-
+
+
make
.
-Then choose a configuration from the list and type make
-configname.
+Third party/extra tools.
++Note: These should not be required, when building from a release tarball. If +you think you've spotted a bug let developers know by filing a +bug report.
-To compile stand-alone Mesa type make
in the top-level directory.
-You'll see a list of supported system configurations.
-Choose one from the list (such as linux-x86), and type:
-
- make linux-x86 --
This will produce libGL.so and several other libraries
+mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison+For MSVC on Windows, install +Win flex-bison. +
1.2 Requirements
-Build Mesa and the DRI hardware drivers by running -
-- make linux-dri --
-There are also linux-dri-x86
, linux-dri-x86-64
,
-and linux-ppc
configurations which are optimized for those
-architectures.
+The requirements depends on the features selected at configure stage.
+Check/install the respective -devel package as prompted by the configure error
+message.
-Make sure you have the prerequisite versions of DRM and Xserver mentioned -above. +Here are some common ways to retrieve most/all of the dependencies based on +the packaging tool used by your distro.
-make realclean
before rebuilding.
+Meson is the latest build system in mesa, it is currently able to build for
+*nix systems like Linux and BSD, and will be able to build for windows as well.
lib/
-(or lib64/
) directory.
-You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
+The general approach is:
-libGLU is the OpenGL Utility library. -
-libglut is the GLUT library. -
-libGLw is the Xt/Motif OpenGL drawing area widget library. -
-libOSMesa is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library. +Although meson is recommended, another supported way to build on *nix systems +is with autoconf.
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD} -
-export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=${PWD} (if using DRI drivers) -
1.6 Installing the header and library files
- -
-The standard location for the OpenGL header files on Unix-type systems is
-in /usr/include/GL/
.
-The standard location for the libraries is /usr/lib/
.
-For more information see, the
-
-Linux/OpenGL ABI specification.
-If you'd like Mesa to co-exist with another implementation of OpenGL that's
-already installed, you'll have to choose different directories, like
-/usr/local/include/GL/
and /usr/local/lib/
.
-
5. Building with AOSP (Android)
-To install Mesa's headers and libraries, run make install
.
-But first, check the Mesa/configs/default file and examine the values
-of the INSTALL_DIR and DRI_DRIVER_INSTALL_DIR variables.
-Change them if needed, then run make install
.
+Currently one can build Mesa for Android as part of the AOSP project, yet
+your experience might vary.
-The variable
-DESTDIR may also be used to install the contents to a temporary
-staging directory.
-This can be useful for package management.
-For example: make install DESTDIR=/somepath/
+In order to achieve that one should update their local manifest to point to the
+upstream repo, set the appropriate BOARD_GPU_DRIVERS and build the
+libGLES_mesa library.
-Note: at runtime you can use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable -(on Linux at least) to switch -between the Mesa libraries and other vendor's libraries whenever you want. -This is a handy way to compare multiple OpenGL implementations. +FINISHME: Improve on the instructions add references to Rob H repos/Jenkins, +Android-x86 and/or other resources.
- -1.7 Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
+6. Library Information
-Running make install
will install package configuration files
-for the pkg-config utility.
+When compilation has finished, look in the top-level lib/
+(or lib64/
) directory.
+You'll see a set of library files similar to this:
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 10 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1* +lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 19 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.5.060100* +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 3375861 Mar 26 07:53 libGL.so.1.5.060100* +lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 14 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so -> libOSMesa.so.6* +lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian users 23 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6 -> libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100* +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 23871 Mar 26 07:53 libOSMesa.so.6.1.060100* +
-When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine
-the proper compiler and linker flags.
+libGL is the main OpenGL library (i.e. Mesa).
+
+libOSMesa is the OSMesa (Off-Screen) interface library.
-For example, compiling and linking a GLUT application can be done with: +If you built the DRI hardware drivers, you'll also see the DRI drivers:
- gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glut` mydemo.c -o mydemo +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i915_dri.so +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 16895413 Jul 21 12:11 i965_dri.so +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11849858 Jul 21 12:12 r200_dri.so +-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian users 11757388 Jul 21 12:12 radeon_dri.so-
- - -
2. Windows Compilation and Installation -
-Please see the instructions on building with SCons. -Alternatively see README.WIN32 file. +If you built with Gallium support, look in lib/gallium/ for Gallium-based +versions of libGL and device drivers.
+7. Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config
- -3. Building with SCons - -
-To build Mesa with SCons on Linux or Windows do -
-- scons -
-The build output will be placed in
-build/platform-machine-debug/..., where platform is for
-example linux or windows, machine is x86 or x86_64, optionally followed
-by -debug for debug builds.
+Running make install
will install package configuration files
+for the pkg-config utility.
-The sample programs are built seperately. To build them do -
- scons -C progs --And the build output will be placed in progs/build/... +When compiling your OpenGL application you can use pkg-config to determine +the proper compiler and linker flags.