Getting Mesa

# Downloading

Current stable release: 6.4.1

Primary download site: SourceForge

Mesa is distributed in several parts:

- MesaLib-x.y.z - the main Mesa library source code, drivers and documentation.
- MesaDemos-x.y.z - OpenGL demonstration and test programs. Most of the programs require GLUT (either the original GLUT by Mark Kilgard or freeglut or OpenGLUT).
- MesaGLUT-x.y.z - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.

If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first package.

The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. Other organizations might offer additional package formats.

# Unpacking

All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking.

- To unpack .tar.gz files:

      	tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
      	tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
      	tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz

  or

      	gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
      	gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
      	gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -

  or

      	gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
      	gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar
      	gunzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar

- To unpack .tar.bz2 files:

      	bunzip2 -c MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
      	bunzip2 -c MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
      	bunzip2 -c MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -

- To unpack .zip files:

      	unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
      	unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
      	unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip

# Contents

After unpacking you'll have these directories:

    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/glu		- libGLU source code
    src/glw		- Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code

If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package:

    progs/demos	- original Mesa demos
    progs/xdemos	- GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos
    progs/redbook	- examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide
    progs/samples	- examples from SGI
    progs/images/	- image files

If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package:

    src/glut	- GLUT library source code

Proceed to the compilation and installation instructions.