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3<TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE>
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]9<H1>Downloading</H1>
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Brian Paul5d56e312009-09-03 15:44:49 -0600[diff] [blame]12Primary Mesa download site:
13<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
14target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
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Brian Paul5d56e312009-09-03 15:44:49 -0600[diff] [blame]18When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
19<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
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Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]24The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
25is the version. There are three types of compressed archives.
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]27<p>
José Fonseca9a7f84d2011-07-14 17:28:52 +0100[diff] [blame]28In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
29contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]30Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
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33In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
34MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
35Now, the
36<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
37Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
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41<H1>Unpacking</H1>
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43<p>
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]44To unpack .tar.gz files:
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]45</p>
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Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]47 tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]48</pre>
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]49or
50<pre>
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]51 gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]52</pre>
53or
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Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]55 gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]56</pre>
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]57<p>
58To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
59</p>
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]60<pre>
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]61 bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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64To unpack .zip files:
65</p>
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]66<pre>
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]67 unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
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70
71<h1>Contents</h1>
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73<p>
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]74After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]77Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems
78configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]79include/ - GL header (include) files
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]80bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]81docs/ - documentation
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]82src/ - source code for libraries
83src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]84src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]85src/glu - libGLU source code
Brian Pauld9eff8b2006-07-12 20:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]86src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]87</pre>
Brian Paulafc04282003-09-03 23:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]88
Brian Paul48f696c2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600[diff] [blame]89If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package:
Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]90<pre>
91src/glut - GLUT library source code
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Brian Paul7f8cb302005-09-10 16:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]95Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]96instructions</a>.
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