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| <h1>Compilation and Installation using Autoconf</h1> |
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| <ol> |
| <li><p><a href="#basic">Basic Usage</a></li> |
| <li><p><a href="#driver">Driver Options</a> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="#xlib">Xlib Driver Options</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#dri">DRI Driver Options</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#osmesa">OSMesa Driver Options</a></li> |
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| <h2 id="basic">1. Basic Usage</h2> |
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| <p> |
| The autoconf generated configure script can be used to guess your |
| platform and change various options for building Mesa. To use the |
| configure script, type: |
| </p> |
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| <pre> |
| ./configure |
| </pre> |
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| <p> |
| To see a short description of all the options, type <code>./configure |
| --help</code>. If you are using a development snapshot and the configure |
| script does not exist, type <code>./autogen.sh</code> to generate it |
| first. If you know the options you want to pass to |
| <code>configure</code>, you can pass them to <code>autogen.sh</code>. It |
| will run <code>configure</code> with these options after it is |
| generated. Once you have run <code>configure</code> and set the options |
| to your preference, type: |
| </p> |
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| <pre> |
| make |
| </pre> |
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| <p> |
| This will produce libGL.so and several other libraries depending on the |
| options you have chosen. Later, if you want to rebuild for a different |
| configuration run <code>make realclean</code> before rebuilding. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| Some of the generic autoconf options are used with Mesa: |
| </p> |
| <dl> |
| <dt><code>--prefix=PREFIX</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>This is the root directory where |
| files will be installed by <code>make install</code>. The default is |
| <code>/usr/local</code>.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>--exec-prefix=EPREFIX</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>This is the root directory |
| where architecture-dependent files will be installed. In Mesa, this is |
| only used to derive the directory for the libraries. The default is |
| <code>${prefix}</code>.</p> |
| </dd> |
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| <dt><code>--libdir=LIBDIR</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>This option specifies the directory |
| where the GL libraries will be installed. The default is |
| <code>${exec_prefix}/lib</code>. It also serves as the name of the |
| library staging area in the source tree. For instance, if the option |
| <code>--libdir=/usr/local/lib64</code> is used, the libraries will be |
| created in a <code>lib64</code> directory at the top of the Mesa source |
| tree.</p> |
| </dd> |
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| <dt><code>--sysconfdir=DIR</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>This option specifies the directory where the configuration |
| files will be installed. The default is <code>${prefix}/etc</code>. |
| Currently there's only one config file provided when dri drivers are |
| enabled - it's <code>drirc</code>.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>--enable-static, --disable-shared</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>By default, Mesa |
| will build shared libraries. Either of these options will force static |
| libraries to be built. It is not currently possible to build static and |
| shared libraries in a single pass.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>CC, CFLAGS, CXX, CXXFLAGS</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>These environment variables |
| control the C and C++ compilers used during the build. By default, |
| <code>gcc</code> and <code>g++</code> are used and the debug/optimisation |
| level is left unchanged.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>LDFLAGS</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>An environment variable specifying flags to |
| pass when linking programs. These should be empty and |
| <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> is recommended to be used instead. If needed |
| it can be used to direct the linker to use libraries in nonstandard |
| directories. For example, <code>LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib"</code>.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>The |
| <code>pkg-config</code> utility is a hard requirement for cofiguring and |
| building mesa. It is used to search for external libraries |
| on the system. This environment variable is used to control the search |
| path for <code>pkg-config</code>. For instance, setting |
| <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig</code> will search for |
| package metadata in <code>/usr/X11R6</code> before the standard |
| directories.</p> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| <p> |
| There are also a few general options for altering the Mesa build: |
| </p> |
| <dl> |
| <dt><code>--enable-debug</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>This option will enable compiler |
| options and macros to aid in debugging the Mesa libraries.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>--disable-asm</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>There are assembly routines |
| available for a few architectures. These will be used by default if |
| one of these architectures is detected. This option ensures that |
| assembly will not be used.</p> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt><code>--build=</code></dt> |
| <dt><code>--host=</code></dt> |
| <dd><p>By default, the build will compile code for the architecture that |
| it's running on. In order to build cross-compile Mesa on a x86-64 machine |
| that is to run on a i686, one would need to set the options to:</p> |
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| <p><code>--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu</code></p> |
| |
| Note that these can vary from distribution to distribution. For more |
| information check with the |
| <a href="https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html"> |
| autoconf manual</a>. |
| Note that you will need to correctly set <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> as well. |
| |
| |
| <p>In some cases a single compiler is capable of handling both architectures |
| (multilib) in that case one would need to set the <code>CC,CXX</code> variables |
| appending the correct machine options. Seek your compiler documentation for |
| further information - |
| <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Submodel-Options.html"> gcc |
| machine dependent options</a></p> |
| |
| <p>In addition to specifying correct <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> for the target |
| architecture, the following should be sufficient to configure multilib Mesa</p> |
| |
| <code>./configure CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu ...</code> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
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| <h2 id="driver">2. Driver Options</h2> |
| |
| <p> |
| There are several different driver modes that Mesa can use. These are |
| described in more detail in the <a href="install.html">basic |
| installation instructions</a>. The Mesa driver is controlled through the |
| configure options <code>--enable-xlib-glx</code>, <code>--enable-osmesa</code>, |
| and <code>--enable-dri</code>. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h3 id="xlib">Xlib</h3><p> |
| It uses Xlib as a software renderer to do all rendering. It corresponds |
| to the option <code>--enable-xlib-glx</code>. The libX11 and libXext |
| libraries, as well as the X11 development headers, will be need to |
| support the Xlib driver. |
| |
| <h3 id="dri">DRI</h3><p>This mode uses the DRI hardware drivers for |
| accelerated OpenGL rendering. Enable the DRI drivers with the option |
| <code>--enable-dri</code>. See the <a href="install.html">basic |
| installation instructions</a> for details on prerequisites for the DRI |
| drivers. |
| |
| <!-- DRI specific options --> |
| <dl> |
| <dt><code>--with-dri-driverdir=DIR</code> |
| <dd><p> This option specifies the |
| location the DRI drivers will be installed to and the location libGL |
| will search for DRI drivers. The default is <code>${libdir}/dri</code>. |
| <dt><code>--with-dri-drivers=DRIVER,DRIVER,...</code> |
| <dd><p> This option |
| allows a specific set of DRI drivers to be built. For example, |
| <code>--with-dri-drivers="swrast,i965,radeon,nouveau"</code>. By |
| default, the drivers will be chosen depending on the target platform. |
| See the directory <code>src/mesa/drivers/dri</code> in the source tree |
| for available drivers. Beware that the swrast DRI driver is used by both |
| libGL and the X.Org xserver GLX module to do software rendering, so you |
| may run into problems if it is not available. |
| <!-- This explanation might be totally bogus. Kristian? --> |
| <dt><code>--disable-driglx-direct</code> |
| <dd><p> Disable direct rendering in |
| GLX. Normally, direct hardware rendering through the DRI drivers and |
| indirect software rendering are enabled in GLX. This option disables |
| direct rendering entirely. It can be useful on architectures where |
| kernel DRM modules are not available. |
| <dt><code>--enable-glx-tls</code> <dd><p> |
| Enable Thread Local Storage (TLS) in |
| GLX. |
| <dt><code>--with-expat=DIR</code> |
| <dd><p><strong>DEPRECATED</strong>, use <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> instead.</p> |
| <p>The DRI-enabled libGL uses expat to |
| parse the DRI configuration files in <code>${sysconfdir}/drirc</code> and |
| <code>~/.drirc</code>. This option allows a specific expat installation |
| to be used. For example, <code>--with-expat=/usr/local</code> will |
| search for expat headers and libraries in <code>/usr/local/include</code> |
| and <code>/usr/local/lib</code>, respectively. |
| </dl> |
| |
| <h3 id="osmesa">OSMesa </h3><p> No libGL is built in this |
| mode. Instead, the driver code is built into the Off-Screen Mesa |
| (OSMesa) library. See the <a href="osmesa.html">Off-Screen Rendering</a> |
| page for more details. It corresponds to the option |
| <code>--enable-osmesa</code>. |
| |
| <!-- OSMesa specific options --> |
| <dl> |
| <dt><code>--with-osmesa-bits=BITS</code> |
| <dd><p> This option allows the size |
| of the color channel in bits to be specified. By default, an 8-bit |
| channel will be used, and the driver will be named libOSMesa. Other |
| options are 16- and 32-bit color channels, which will add the bit size |
| to the library name. For example, <code>--with-osmesa-bits=16</code> |
| will create the libOSMesa16 library with a 16-bit color channel. |
| </dl> |
| |
| |
| <h2 id="library">3. Library Options</h2> |
| |
| <p> |
| The configure script provides more fine grained control over the GL |
| libraries that will be built. More details on the specific GL libraries |
| can be found in the <a href="install.html">basic installation |
| instructions</a>. |
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