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| <H1>Downloading</H1> |
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| Primary Mesa download site: |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/" |
| target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP) |
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| When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>. |
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| The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z |
| is the version. There are three types of compressed archives. |
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| In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which |
| contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library. |
| Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut). |
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| In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as |
| MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}. |
| Now, the |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent"> |
| Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately. |
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| <H1>Unpacking</H1> |
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| To unpack .tar.gz files: |
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| <pre> |
| tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz |
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| or |
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| gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - |
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| or |
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| gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar |
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| To unpack .tar.bz2 files: |
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| bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - |
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| To unpack .zip files: |
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| <pre> |
| unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip |
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| <h1>Contents</h1> |
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| After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): |
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| Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems |
| configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems |
| include/ - GL header (include) files |
| bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc |
| docs/ - documentation |
| src/ - source code for libraries |
| src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers |
| src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers |
| src/glu - libGLU source code |
| src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support |
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| If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package: |
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| src/glut - GLUT library source code |
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| Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation |
| instructions</a>. |
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