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<TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE>
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<H1>Downloading</H1>
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Primary Mesa download site:
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
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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>.
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The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
is the version. There are three types of compressed archives.
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There's also the MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
contain Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
This is optional.
Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
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In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
Now, the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
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<H1>Unpacking</H1>
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To unpack .tar.gz files:
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tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
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or
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gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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or
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gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
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To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
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bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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To unpack .zip files:
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unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.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/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium 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 MesaGLUT.x.y.z 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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