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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]9<H1>Downloading</H1>
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11<p>
Brian Paule3f41ce2006-03-31 23:10:21 +0000[diff] [blame]12Last development release: <b>6.5</b>
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Brian Paule3f41ce2006-03-31 23:10:21 +0000[diff] [blame]16Last stable release: <b>6.4.2</b>
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]20Primary download site:
21<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3"
22target="_parent">SourceForge</a>
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26<p>
27Mesa is distributed in several parts:
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29<ul>
30<li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers
31 and documentation.
32</li>
33<li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs.
34 Most of the programs require GLUT (either the
Brian Paul3cb56802006-06-23 15:27:32 +0000[diff] [blame]35 <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut"
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]36 target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or
37 <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or
Brian Paul3cb56802006-06-23 15:27:32 +0000[diff] [blame]38 <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>).
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]39</li>
40<li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used
41 with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.
42</li>
43</ul>
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45<p>
46If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first
47package.
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Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame^]51If 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]55The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats.
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame^]56Other sites might offer additional package formats.
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]57</p>
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59<H1>Unpacking</H1>
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61<p>
62All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking.
63</p>
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65<ul>
66<li>To unpack .tar.gz files:
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]68 tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
69 tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
70 tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]72or
73<pre>
74 gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
75 gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
76 gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
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80 gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
81 gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar
82 gunzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar
83</pre>
84<li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
85<pre>
86 bunzip2 -c MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
87 bunzip2 -c MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
88 bunzip2 -c MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
89</pre>
90<li>To unpack .zip files:
91<pre>
92 unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
93 unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
94 unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip
95</pre>
96</ul>
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99<h1>Contents</h1>
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Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame^]102After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]105Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
106configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]107include/ - GL header (include) files
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]108bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]109docs/ - documentation
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]110src/ - source code for libraries
111src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
112src/glu - libGLU source code
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame^]113src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]114src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]115</pre>
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]116
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]117If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package:
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Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]120progs/demos - original Mesa demos
121progs/xdemos - GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos
122progs/redbook - examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide
123progs/samples - examples from SGI
124progs/images/ - image files
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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]126
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]127If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package:
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129src/glut - GLUT library source code
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]133Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]134instructions</a>.
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