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author | Brian Paul <[email protected]> | 2011-04-04 11:16:51 -0600 |
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committer | Brian Paul <[email protected]> | 2011-04-04 11:17:55 -0600 |
commit | 48f696c79364bc006e77e27de3511b090241080d (patch) | |
tree | af1b69739f9d966fe6989d4ca8fc0e5891757bd5 /docs/download.html | |
parent | 0d96ae8fc7c77768b0abb0e7fce7cb9cdc661c2b (diff) |
docs: update info about Mesa packaging/contents
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diff --git a/docs/download.html b/docs/download.html index 3cb9423dd91..03fa60b4dc5 100644 --- a/docs/download.html +++ b/docs/download.html @@ -21,76 +21,52 @@ When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found <p> -Mesa is distributed in several parts: +The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z +is the version. There are three types of compressed archives. </p> -<ul> -<li><b>MesaLib-x.y.z</b> - the main Mesa library source code, drivers - and documentation. -</li> -<li><b>MesaDemos-x.y.z</b> - OpenGL demonstration and test programs. - Most of the programs require GLUT (either the - <a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut" - target="_parent">original GLUT by Mark Kilgard</a> or - <a href="http://freeglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">freeglut</a> or - <a href="http://openglut.sourceforge.net" target="_parent">OpenGLUT</a>). -</li> -<li><b>MesaGLUT-x.y.z</b> - Mark Kilgard's GLUT, easily compiled and used - with Mesa. Plus, other implementation of GLUT for DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc. -</li> -</ul> - <p> -If you're not interested in running the demos, you'll only need the first -package. +There's also the MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which +contain Mark Kilgard's GLUT library. +This is optional. +Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut). </p> - <p> -If you're new to this and not sure what you're doing, grab all three packages. +In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as +MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}. +Now, the +<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent"> +Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately. </p> -<p> -The packages are available in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip formats. -Other sites might offer additional package formats. -</p> <H1>Unpacking</H1> <p> -All the packages should be in the same directory prior to unpacking. +To unpack .tar.gz files: </p> - -<ul> -<li>To unpack .tar.gz files: <pre> - tar zxf MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz - tar zxf MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz - tar zxf MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz + tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz </pre> or <pre> - gzcat MesaLib-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaDemos-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - - gzcat MesaGLUT-X.Y.tar.gz | tar xf - + gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - </pre> or <pre> - 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 + gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar </pre> -<li>To unpack .tar.bz2 files: +<p> +To unpack .tar.bz2 files: +</p> <pre> - 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 - + bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf - </pre> -<li>To unpack .zip files: +<p> +To unpack .zip files: +</p> <pre> - unzip MesaLib-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaDemos-X.Y.zip - unzip MesaGLUT-X.Y.zip + unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip </pre> -</ul> <h1>Contents</h1> @@ -106,22 +82,13 @@ 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/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium 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 </pre> -If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaDemos.X.Y package: - -<pre> -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 -</pre> - -If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.X.Y package: +If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package: <pre> src/glut - GLUT library source code </pre> |