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Brian5d735022008-04-04 19:26:29 -0600[diff] [blame]12Last stable release: <b>7.0.3</b>
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]16Primary download site:
17<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3"
18target="_parent">SourceForge</a>
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23Mesa is distributed in several parts:
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25<ul>
26<li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers
27 and documentation.
28</li>
29<li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs.
30 Most of the programs require GLUT (either the
Brian Paul3cb56802006-06-23 15:27:32 +0000[diff] [blame]31 <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut"
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]32 target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or
33 <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or
Brian Paul3cb56802006-06-23 15:27:32 +0000[diff] [blame]34 <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>).
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36<li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used
37 with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.
38</li>
39</ul>
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42If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first
43package.
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Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]47If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages.
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]51The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats.
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]52Other sites might offer additional package formats.
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55<H1>Unpacking</H1>
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57<p>
58All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking.
59</p>
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61<ul>
62<li>To unpack .tar.gz files:
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]64 tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
65 tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
66 tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]68or
69<pre>
70 gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
71 gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
72 gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
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75<pre>
76 gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
77 gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar
78 gunzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar
79</pre>
80<li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
81<pre>
82 bunzip2 -c MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
83 bunzip2 -c MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
84 bunzip2 -c MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
85</pre>
86<li>To unpack .zip files:
87<pre>
88 unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
89 unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
90 unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip
91</pre>
92</ul>
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95<h1>Contents</h1>
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Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]98After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]101Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
102configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]103include/ - GL header (include) files
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]104bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]105docs/ - documentation
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]106src/ - source code for libraries
107src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
108src/glu - libGLU source code
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]109src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]110src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]111</pre>
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]112
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]113If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package:
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Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]116progs/demos - original Mesa demos
117progs/xdemos - GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos
118progs/redbook - examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide
119progs/samples - examples from SGI
120progs/images/ - image files
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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]122
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]123If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package:
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125src/glut - GLUT library source code
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]129Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]130instructions</a>.
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