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<TITLE>Getting Mesa</TITLE>

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<H1>Downloading / Unpacking</H1>

<p>
Mesa can be downloaded from the
<a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" target="_parent">
SourceForge download area</A>.
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<p>
Since version 2.3, Mesa is distributed in two pieces:  main library code
and demos.  If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mesa or you're not
interested in the demos you can just download the core Mesa archive file.
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<p>
Mesa is available in at least three archive formats:
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<pre>
1. GNU zip/tar

	Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz
	Unpack with:
		gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf -
		gzcat MesaDemos-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 MesaLib-X.Y.tar
	or
		tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz
		tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz

	If you don't have gzcat try zcat instead.

2. Unix compressed/tar

	Download MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z
	Unpack with:
		zcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -
		zcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.Z | tar xf -

3. ZIP format

	Download MesaLib-X.Y.zip and optionally MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
	Unpack with:
		unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip
		unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip
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<p>
After unpacking you'll have these directories (and more):
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<pre>
Makefile.X11	- top-level Makefile for X11-based systems
Make-config	- system configurations used by the Makefile.X11
include/	- GL header (include) files
bin/		- shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
lib/		- final client libraries, created during compilation
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


and if you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y archive:

src/glut	- GLUT source code
progs/		- OpenGL programs
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

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<p>
Proceed to <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
instructions</a>.
</p>

<H1>GLUT</H1>

<p>
Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.
</p>
<p>
The GLUT tests, demos, examples, etc are not included, just the main library.
To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit the
<a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.html"
target ="_parent">GLUT page</a> on www.opengl.org.
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