</head>
<body>
+<div class="header">
+ <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
+</div>
+
+<iframe src="contents.html"></iframe>
+<div class="content">
+
<h1>Downloading</h1>
<p>
Primary Mesa download site:
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
-target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
+or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
+(HTTP).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
+year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
+<tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
+(starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
+release, 1 for the first patch after that).
</p>
<p>
When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
+in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
+<tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
</p>
<h1>Unpacking</h1>
<p>
-Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>.
</p>
<p>
-To unpack .tar.gz files:
-</p>
+To unpack the tarball:
<pre>
- tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
+ tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
</pre>
or
<pre>
- gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
</pre>
-or
-<pre>
- gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
-</pre>
-<p>
-To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
</p>
-<pre>
- bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
-</pre>
-<p>
-To unpack .zip files:
-</p>
-<pre>
- unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
-</pre>
<h1>Contents</h1>
After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
</p>
<pre>
-Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
-configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems
+autogen.sh - Autoconf script for *nix systems
+scons/ - SCons script for Windows builds
include/ - GL header (include) files
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/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
-src/glu - libGLU source code
src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
</pre>
</p>
-<h1>Demos and GLUT</h1>
+<h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
+
+<p>
+A package of SGI's GLU library is available
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
+</p>
<p>
A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
</p>
<p>
The Mesa demos collection is available
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">here</a>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
</p>
<p>
-In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
-Mesa releases. But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they
-were split off some time ago.
-</p>
+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:
+<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>,
+<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and
+<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>,
+</p>
+</div>
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