<HTML> <TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> <BODY> <H1>Downloading</H1> <p> Current stable release: <b>7.2</b> <br> Current development: Mesa git/master </p> <p> Primary download site: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3" target="_parent">SourceForge</a> </p> <p> When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) can be found <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/beta/">here</a>. </p> <p> Mesa is distributed in several parts: </p> <ul> <li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers and documentation. </li> <li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs. Most of the programs require GLUT (either the <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut" target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>). </li> <li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc. </li> </ul> <p> If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first package. </p> <p> If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages. </p> <p> The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. Other sites might offer additional package formats. </p> <H1>Unpacking</H1> <p> All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. </p> <ul> <li>To unpack .tar.gz files: <pre> tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz </pre> or <pre> gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - </pre> or <pre> 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 </pre> <li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files: <pre> 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 - </pre> <li>To unpack .zip files: <pre> unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip </pre> </ul> <h1>Contents</h1> <p> 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 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/glu - libGLU source code src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code </pre> If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package: <pre> 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 </pre> If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: <pre> src/glut - GLUT library source code </pre> <p> Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation instructions</a>. </p> </BODY> </HTML>