1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2 <html lang="en"> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5 <title>Getting Mesa</title> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> 7 </head> 8 <body> 9 10 <div class="header"> 11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1> 12 </div> 13 14 <iframe src="contents.html"></iframe> 15 <div class="content"> 16 17 <h1>Downloading</h1> 18 19 <p> 20 Primary Mesa download site: 21 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP) 22 or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a> 23 (HTTPS). 24 </p> 25 26 <p> 27 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is 28 year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where 29 <tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number 30 (starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first 31 release, 1 for the first patch after that). 32 </p> 33 34 <p> 35 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found 36 in the same directory, and are recognisable by the 37 <tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename. 38 </p> 39 40 41 <h1>Unpacking</h1> 42 43 <p> 44 Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>. 45 </p> 46 47 <p> 48 To unpack the tarball: 49 <pre> 50 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz 51 </pre> 52 or 53 <pre> 54 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz 55 </pre> 56 </p> 57 58 59 <h1>Contents</h1> 60 61 <p> 62 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): 63 </p> 64 <pre> 65 autogen.sh - Autoconf script for *nix systems 66 scons/ - SCons script for Windows builds 67 include/ - GL header (include) files 68 bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc 69 docs/ - documentation 70 src/ - source code for libraries 71 src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers 72 src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers 73 src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support 74 </pre> 75 76 77 <p> 78 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation 79 instructions</a>. 80 </p> 81 82 83 <h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1> 84 85 <p> 86 A package of SGI's GLU library is available 87 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a> 88 </p> 89 90 <p> 91 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available 92 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a> 93 </p> 94 95 <p> 96 The Mesa demos collection is available 97 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a> 98 </p> 99 100 <p> 101 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with 102 Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they 103 were split off into their own git repositories: 104 105 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/">GLUT</a>, 106 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu/">GLU</a> and 107 <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos/">Demos</a>, 108 </p> 109 110 </div> 111 </body> 112 </html> 113
