About:
Mesa is a 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API (Application Programming Interface). Mesa cannot be called an implementation of OpenGL since the author did not obtain an OpenGL license from SGI. Furthermore, Mesa cannot claim OpenGL conformance since the conformance tests are only available to OpenGL licensees. Despite these technical/legal terms, you may find Mesa to be a valid alternative to OpenGL. Most applications written for OpenGL can use Mesa instead without changing the source code.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
GLUT will now be built with -fexceptions so C++ programs will propagate exceptions. Several bugs were fixed.

Author:
Brian Paul <brian (at) mesa3d (dot) org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.51/10.00 (7 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.mesa3d.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3
Tar/BZ2:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3
Zip:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3
Changelog:
http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.2.html
Bug tracker:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://www.mesa3d.org/lists.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	7.2	25-Sep-2008	OSI Approved

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
7.2	Minor feature enhancements	25-Sep-2008 17:50
7.0.3	Minor bugfixes	10-Apr-2008 20:43
7.0.2	Minor feature enhancements	14-Nov-2007 12:31
7.0	Major feature enhancements	29-Jun-2007 18:57
6.5	Major feature enhancements	11-Aug-2006 12:47
6.2.1	Minor bugfixes	28-Dec-2004 23:13
6.0	Major feature enhancements	17-Jan-2004 07:25
5.0.2	Major bugfixes	16-Jan-2004 04:24
5.0	Minor feature enhancements	19-Mar-2003 22:14
4.0.3	Minor bugfixes	27-Jun-2002 12:32

 Articles referencing this project

• Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa
  by Jon Leech , in Editorials
  Thu, Sep 9th 1999 06:01
  

 Comments

[»] 5.0.2
by Mark Lindner - Nov 6th 2003 11:21:48

Looks like 5.0.2 wasn't tested too thoroughly. On RH7.2, libtool script dies with a syntax error, configure doesn't perform all Makefile.in substitutions properly, etc.

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[»] circular RPM dependency problem solved
by timecop - Nov 6th 2000 09:36:24

Don't use RPM, be a real man and compile from source.

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[»] Re: circular RPM dependency problem solved
by Harri Haataja - Feb 2nd 2001 11:09:11


> Don't use RPM, be a real man and compile
> from source.

Oh, yes; timecop bitching again.

There's certainly a problem if common requires the base but since you will install them both, install them with the same command. This way all dependencies get filled.

Elementary... =)

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[»] Re: circular RPM dependency problem solved
by Raul Dias - Jun 2nd 2001 14:49:10


>
> % Don't use RPM, be a real man and
> compile
> % from source.
>
>
> Oh, yes; timecop bitching again.
He is right.
There are really rare cases where rpm packages
should depends on each other causing
a circular dependecy.

This is a packaging bug.

The best thing to do is to write your own rpm spec
file and compile it. 8)



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[»] circular rpm dependencies problem
by Jason Hudgins (Incantations Media Group) - Aug 18th 2000 16:42:15

Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm requires
Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm to install...
BUT
Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm requires requires
Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm to install.

solution:
rpm --install --nodeps Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm
rpm --install Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm

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[»] Re: circular rpm dependencies problem
by simmons75 - Feb 16th 2001 22:50:27


> Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm
> requires Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm to
> install... BUT
> Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm requires
> requires
> Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm to
> install.
>
> solution:
> rpm --install --nodeps
> Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm
> rpm --install
> Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm
>
> the real solution: rpm -Uvh Mesa-common-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm Mesa-3.2.1-1rh61.i386.rpm

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