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> 20Primary Mesa download site: 21<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP) 22or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a> 23(HTTPS). 24</p> 25 26<p> 27Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is 28year-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 31release, 1 for the first patch after that). 32</p> 33 34<p> 35When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found 36in 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> 44Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>. 45</p> 46 47<p> 48To unpack the tarball: 49<pre> 50 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz 51</pre> 52or 53<pre> 54 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz 55</pre> 56</p> 57 58 59<h1>Contents</h1> 60 61<p> 62After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others): 63</p> 64<pre> 65autogen.sh - Autoconf script for *nix systems 66scons/ - SCons script for Windows builds 67include/ - GL header (include) files 68bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc 69docs/ - documentation 70src/ - source code for libraries 71src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers 72src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers 73src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support 74</pre> 75 76 77<p> 78Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation 79instructions</a>. 80</p> 81 82 83<h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1> 84 85<p> 86A 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> 91A 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> 96The Mesa demos collection is available 97<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a> 98</p> 99 100<p> 101In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with 102Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they 103were 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