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| <H1>Downloading</H1> |
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| Current stable release: <b>7.2</b> |
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| Current development: Mesa git/master |
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| Primary download site: |
| <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3" |
| target="_parent">SourceForge</a> |
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| When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) can be found |
| <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/beta/">here</a>. |
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| Mesa is distributed in several parts: |
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| <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>). |
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| <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. |
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| If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first |
| package. |
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| If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages. |
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| The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. |
| Other sites might offer additional package formats. |
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| <H1>Unpacking</H1> |
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| All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. |
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| <li>To unpack .tar.gz files: |
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| tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz |
| tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz |
| tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz |
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| or |
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| gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - |
| gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - |
| gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - |
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| 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 |
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| <li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files: |
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| 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 - |
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| <li>To unpack .zip files: |
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| unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip |
| unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip |
| unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip |
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| <h1>Contents</h1> |
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| After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): |
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| 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 |
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| If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package: |
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| 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 |
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| If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: |
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| src/glut - GLUT library source code |
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| Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation |
| instructions</a>. |
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