<HTML> <TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> <BODY> <H1>Downloading</H1> <p> Primary Mesa download site: <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/" target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP) </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>. </p> <H1>Unpacking</H1> <p> Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip </p> <p> To unpack .tar.gz files: </p> <pre> tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz </pre> or <pre> gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - </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> <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/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> Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation instructions</a>. </p> <H1>Demos and GLUT</H2> <p> A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a> </p> <p> The Mesa demos collection is available <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">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> </BODY> </HTML>