Downloading

Primary download site: SourceForge

When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) can be found here.

Mesa is distributed in several parts:

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

If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages.

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

Unpacking

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

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/glu		- libGLU source code
src/glx		- sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
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.