Primary Mesa download site: freedesktop.org (FTP)
When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found here.
Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
To unpack .tar.gz files:
tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gzor
gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -or
gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
To unpack .zip files:
unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
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/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
Proceed to the compilation and installation instructions.
A package of SGI's GLU library is available here
A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available here
The Mesa demos collection is available here
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: GLUT, GLU and Demos,