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   3 <TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE>
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   9 <H1>Downloading</H1>
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  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>
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  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>
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  23 <p>
  24 The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
  25 is the version.  There are three types of compressed archives.
  26 </p>
  27 <p>
  28 In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
  29 contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
  30 Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
  31 </p>
  32 <p>
  33 In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
  34 MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
  35 Now, the
  36 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
  37 Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
  38 </p>
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  41 <H1>Unpacking</H1>
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  43 <p>
  44 To unpack .tar.gz files:
  45 </p>
  46 <pre>
  47         tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
  48 </pre>
  49 or
  50 <pre>
  51         gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  52 </pre>
  53 or
  54 <pre>
  55         gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
  56 </pre>
  57 <p>
  58 To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
  59 </p>
  60 <pre>
  61         bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  62 </pre>
  63 <p>
  64 To unpack .zip files:
  65 </p>
  66 <pre>
  67         unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
  68 </pre>
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  71 <h1>Contents</h1>
  72
  73 <p>
  74 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  75 </p>
  76 <pre>
  77 Makefile        - top-level Makefile for most systems
  78 configs/        - makefile parameter files for various systems
  79 include/        - GL header (include) files
  80 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  81 docs/           - documentation
  82 src/            - source code for libraries
  83 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  84 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  85 src/glu         - libGLU source code
  86 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  87 </pre>
  88
  89 If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package:
  90 <pre>
  91 src/glut        - GLUT library source code
  92 </pre>
  93
  94 <p>
  95 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  96 instructions</a>.
  97 </p>
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