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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Downloading</h1>
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  19 <p>
  20 Primary Mesa download site:
  21 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  22 or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
  23 (HTTPS).
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  26 <p>
  27 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
  28 year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
  29 <tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
  30 (starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
  31 release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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  34 <p>
  35 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  36 in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
  37 <tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
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  41 <h1>Unpacking</h1>
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  43 <p>
  44 Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>.
  45 </p>
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  47 <p>
  48 To unpack the tarball:
  49 <pre>
  50         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
  51 </pre>
  52 or
  53 <pre>
  54         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
  55 </pre>
  56 </p>
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  59 <h1>Contents</h1>
  60
  61 <p>
  62 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  63 </p>
  64 <pre>
  65 autogen.sh      - Autoconf script for *nix systems
  66 scons/          - SCons script for Windows builds
  67 include/        - GL header (include) files
  68 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  69 docs/           - documentation
  70 src/            - source code for libraries
  71 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  72 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  73 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  74 </pre>
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  76
  77 <p>
  78 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  79 instructions</a>.
  80 </p>
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  82
  83 <h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
  84
  85 <p>
  86 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
  87 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
  88 </p>
  89
  90 <p>
  91 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
  92 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
  93 </p>
  94
  95 <p>
  96 The Mesa demos collection is available
  97 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
  98 </p>
  99
 100 <p>
 101 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
 102 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
 103 were split off into their own git repositories:
 104
 105 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>,
 106 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and
 107 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>,
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