Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Downloading and Unpacking |
| 2 | ========================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Downloading |
| 5 | ----------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | You can download the released versions of Mesa via |
| 8 | `HTTPS <https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/>`__ or |
| 9 | `FTP <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/>`__. |
| 10 | |
Eric Engestrom | fd990aa | 2020-09-10 13:25:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | Our release tarballs are GPG-signed, and the public keys are available |
| 12 | here: `release-maintainers-keys.asc <release-maintainers-keys.asc>`__. |
| 13 | |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is |
| 15 | year-based. Filenames are in the form ``mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz``, where ``Y`` |
| 16 | is the year (two digits), ``N`` is an incremental number (starting at 0) |
| 17 | and ``P`` is the patch number (0 for the first release, 1 for the first |
| 18 | patch after that). |
| 19 | |
| 20 | When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found in |
Erik Faye-Lund | 5bea0e8 | 2020-09-25 15:32:32 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | the same directory, and are recognizable by the |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | ``mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz`` filename. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Unpacking |
| 25 | --------- |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Mesa releases are available in two formats: ``.tar.xz`` and ``.tar.gz``. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | To unpack the tarball: |
| 30 | |
Erik Faye-Lund | d6be994 | 2019-06-04 14:14:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | .. code-block:: console |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| 33 | tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz |
| 34 | |
| 35 | or |
| 36 | |
Erik Faye-Lund | d6be994 | 2019-06-04 14:14:13 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | .. code-block:: console |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
| 39 | tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Contents |
| 42 | -------- |
| 43 | |
Erik Faye-Lund | 9be0e2d | 2020-06-15 12:31:36 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | Proceed to the :doc:`compilation and installation |
| 45 | instructions <install>`. |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
| 47 | Demos, GLUT, and GLU |
| 48 | -------------------- |
| 49 | |
| 50 | A package of SGI's GLU library is available |
| 51 | `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/>`__ |
| 52 | |
| 53 | A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available |
| 54 | `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/>`__ |
| 55 | |
| 56 | The Mesa demos collection is available |
| 57 | `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/>`__ |
| 58 | |
| 59 | In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction |
| 60 | with Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change |
Erik Faye-Lund | 50e26e5 | 2020-09-29 18:57:33 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | infrequently, they were split off into their own Git repositories: |
Erik Faye-Lund | 4d06683 | 2020-06-12 20:09:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | `GLUT <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut>`__, |
| 63 | `GLU <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu>`__ and |
| 64 | `Demos <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos>`__, |