1 <HTML> 2 3 <TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE> 4 5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> 6 7 <BODY> 8 9 <H1>Downloading</H1> 10 11 <p> 12 Primary Mesa download site: 13 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/" 14 target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP) 15 </p> 16 17 <p> 18 When 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>. 20 </p> 21 22 23 <p> 24 Mesa is distributed in several parts: 25 </p> 26 <ul> 27 <li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers 28 and documentation. 29 </li> 30 <li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs. 31 Most of the programs require GLUT (either the 32 <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut" 33 target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or 34 <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or 35 <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>). 36 </li> 37 <li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used 38 with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc. 39 </li> 40 </ul> 41 42 <p> 43 If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first 44 package. 45 </p> 46 47 <p> 48 If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages. 49 </p> 50 51 <p> 52 The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. 53 Other sites might offer additional package formats. 54 </p> 55 56 <H1>Unpacking</H1> 57 58 <p> 59 All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. 60 </p> 61 62 <ul> 63 <li>To unpack .tar.gz files: 64 <pre> 65 tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz 66 tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz 67 tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz 68 </pre> 69 or 70 <pre> 71 gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 72 gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 73 gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 74 </pre> 75 or 76 <pre> 77 gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar 78 gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar 79 gunzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar 80 </pre> 81 <li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files: 82 <pre> 83 bunzip2 -c MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 84 bunzip2 -c MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 85 bunzip2 -c MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - 86 </pre> 87 <li>To unpack .zip files: 88 <pre> 89 unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip 90 unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip 91 unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip 92 </pre> 93 </ul> 94 95 96 <h1>Contents</h1> 97 98 <p> 99 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): 100 </p> 101 <pre> 102 Makefile - top-level Makefile for most systems 103 configs/ - makefile parameter files for various systems 104 include/ - GL header (include) files 105 bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc 106 docs/ - documentation 107 src/ - source code for libraries 108 src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers 109 src/glu - libGLU source code 110 src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support 111 src/glw - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code 112 </pre> 113 114 If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package: 115 116 <pre> 117 progs/demos - original Mesa demos 118 progs/xdemos - GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos 119 progs/redbook - examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide 120 progs/samples - examples from SGI 121 progs/images/ - image files 122 </pre> 123 124 If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: 125 <pre> 126 src/glut - GLUT library source code 127 </pre> 128 129 <p> 130 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation 131 instructions</a>. 132 </p> 133 134 135 </BODY> 136 </HTML> 137
