The Mesa 3D Graphics Library

Downloading

Primary Mesa download site:

freedesktop.org (FTP)

When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found

here.

Unpacking

Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip

To unpack .tar.gz files:

	tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz

or

	gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -

or

	gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar

To unpack .tar.bz2 files:

	bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -

To unpack .zip files:

	unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip

Contents

After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):

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/glx		- sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support

Proceed to the compilation and installation

instructions.

Demos, GLUT, and GLU

A package of SGI's GLU library is available

here

A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available

here

The Mesa demos collection is available

here

In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with

Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they

were split off into their own git repositories:

GLUT,

GLU and

Demos,