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   9 <H1>Downloading / Unpacking</H1>
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  12 Mesa can be downloaded from the
  13 <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" target="_parent">
  14 SourceForge download area</A>.
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  18 Since version 2.3, Mesa is distributed in two pieces:  main library code
  19 and demos.  If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mesa or you're not
  20 interested in the demos you can just download the core Mesa archive file.
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  24 Mesa is available in at least three archive formats:
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  27 <pre>
  28 1. GNU zip/tar
  29
  30         Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
  31         Unpack with:
  32                 gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
  33                 gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
  34         or
  35                 gunzip MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
  36                 gunzip MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-X.Y.tar
  37         or
  38                 tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
  39                 tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
  40
  41         If you don't have gzcat try zcat instead.
  42
  43 2. Unix compressed/tar
  44
  45         Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z
  46         Unpack with:
  47                 zcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
  48                 zcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
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  50 3. ZIP format
  51
  52         Download MesaLib-X.Y.zip and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
  53         Unpack with:
  54                 unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
  55                 unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
  56 </pre>
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  58 <p>
  59 After unpacking you'll have these directories (and more):
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  62 Makefile.X11    - top-level Makefile for X11-based systems
  63 Make-config     - system configurations used by the Makefile.X11
  64 include/        - GL header (include) files
  65 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  66 lib/            - final client libraries, created during compilation
  67 docs/           - documentation
  68 src/            - source code for libraries
  69 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  70 src/glu         - libGLU source code
  71 src/glw         - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
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  74 and if you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y archive:
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  76 src/glut        - GLUT source code
  77 progs/          - OpenGL programs
  78 progs/demos     - original Mesa demos
  79 progs/xdemos    - GLX OpenGL/Mesa demos
  80 progs/redbook   - examples from the OpenGL Programming Guide
  81 progs/samples   - examples from SGI
  82 progs/images/   - image files
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  87 Proceed to <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  88 instructions</a>.
  89 </p>
  90
  91 <H1>GLUT</H1>
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  94 Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
  95 GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.
  96 </p>
  97 <p>
  98 The GLUT tests, demos, examples, etc are not included, just the main library.
  99 To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit the
 100 <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.html"
 101 target ="_parent">GLUT page</a> on www.opengl.org.
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