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<TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE>

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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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<p>
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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<p>
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>

<p>
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
<pre>
	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:
<pre>
src/glut	- GLUT library source code
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<p>
Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
instructions</a>.
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