[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 11/12] docs: rework/update install.html

Wed Nov 16 23:27:20 UTC 2016

Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2016, 22:56:10 CET schrieb Eric Engestrom:
> On Wednesday, 2016-11-16 18:46:23 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> > 
> > Still far from perfect, but a few small steps in the right direction.
> > 
> >  - Split build systems, compilers, third party tools
> >  - Mention building mesa for Android (part of AOSP)
> >  - Drop explicit "other" dependencies. Reference to disto methods to
> > 
> > get them.
> > 
> >  - HTML 4.01 Traditional compliance fixes - mixed ul and br tags.
> >  - nuke dead links README.{CYGWIN,VMS}
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  docs/install.html | 109
> >  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed,
> >  69 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/install.html b/docs/install.html
> > index 8b349c4..28aef22 100644
> > --- a/docs/install.html
> > +++ b/docs/install.html
> > @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
> > 
> >    </ul>
> >  
> >  <li><a href="#autoconf">Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)</a>
> >  <li><a href="#scons">Building with SCons (Windows/Linux)</a>
> > 
> > -<li><a href="#other">Building for other systems</a>
> > +<li><a href="#android">Building with AOSP (Android)</a>
> > 
> >  <li><a href="#libs">Library Information</a>
> >  <li><a href="#pkg-config">Building OpenGL programs with pkg-config</a>
> >  </ol>
> > 
> > @@ -33,62 +33,83 @@
> > 
> >  <h1 id="prereq-general">1. Prerequisites for building</h1>
> >  
> >  <h2>1.1 General</h2>
> > 
> > +
> > +<p>
> > +Build system.
> > +</p>
> > +
> > +<ul>
> > +<li>Autoconf is required when building on *nix platforms.
> > +<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is required for building on
> > +Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to
> > autoconf/automake.)
> > +</li>
> > +<li>Android Build system when building as native Android component.
> > Autoconf +is used when when building ARC.
> > +</li>
> > +</ul>
> > +
> > +
> > +<p>
> > +The following compilers are known to work, if you know of others or
> > you're
> > +willing to maintain support for other compiler get in touch.
> > +</p>
> > +
> > +<ul>
> > +<li>GCC 4.2.0 or later (some parts of Mesa may require later versions)
> > +<li>clang - exact minimum requirement is currently unknown.
> > +<li>Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 or later is required, for
> > building on Windows. +</ul>
> > +
> > +
> > +<p>
> > +Third party/extra tools.
> > +
> > +Note: These should not be required, when building from a release tarball.
> > If +you think you've spotted a bug let developers know by filing a
> > +<a href="bugs.html">bug report</a>.
> > +</p>
> > +
> > +
> > 
> >  <ul>
> >  <li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> - Python is required.
> >  Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
> >  </li>
> > 
> > -<br>
> > 
> >  <li><a href="http://www.makotemplates.org/">Python Mako module</a> -
> >  Python Mako module is required. Version 0.3.4 or later should work.
> >  </li>
> > 
> > -</br>
> > -<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is required for building on
> > -Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to
> > autoconf/automake.)
> > -</li>
> > -<br>
> > -<li>lex / yacc - for building the GLSL compiler.
> > -<br>
> > -<br>
> > -On Linux systems, flex and bison are used.
> > -Versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively, (or later) should work.
> > -<br>
> > -<br>
> > +<li>lex / yacc - for building the Mesa IR and GLSL compiler.
> > +<div>
> > +On Linux systems, flex and bison versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively,
> > +(or later) should work.
> 
> Worth mentioning the flex 2.6.2 bug?
> 
> >  On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
> >  <pre>mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison</pre>
> >  For MSVC on Windows, install
> >  <a href="http://winflexbison.sourceforge.net/">Win flex-bison</a>.
> > 
> > -</li>
> > -<br>
> > -<li>For building on Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or later is
> > required. -</li>
> > +</div>
> > 
> >  </ul>
> > 
> > -<h3 id="prereq-dri">1.2 For DRI and hardware acceleration</h3>
> > +<h3 id="prereq-dri">1.2 Requirements</h3>
> > 
> >  <p>
> > 
> > -The following are required for DRI-based hardware acceleration with Mesa:
> > +The requirements depends on the features selected at configure stage.
> > +Check/install the respective -devel package as prompted by the configure
> > error +message.
> > 
> >  </p>
> > 
> > -<ul>
> > -<li><a href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/">
> > -dri2proto</a> version 2.6 or later
> > -<li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/">libDRM</a> latest
> > version
> > -<li>Xorg server version 1.5 or later
> > -<li>Linux 2.6.28 or later
> > -</ul>
> > 
> >  <p>
> > 
> > -If you're using a fedora distro the following command should install all
> > -the needed dependencies:
> > +Here are some common ways to retrieve most/all of the dependencies based
> > on +the packaging tool used by your distro.
> > 
> >  </p>
> > 
> > +
> > 
> >  <pre>
> > 
> > -  sudo yum install flex bison imake libtool xorg-x11-proto-devel
> > libdrm-devel \ -  gcc-c++ xorg-x11-server-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel
> > libXdamage-devel git \ -  expat-devel llvm-devel python-mako
> > +  yum-builddep mesa # yum Fedora/OpenSuse
> > +  dnf builddep mesa # dnf Fedora
> > +  apt-get build-dep mesa # Debian and derivatives
> 
> (We need to get something like this on Arch :/)

It's actually "zypper si -d Mesa" in openSUSE/SLED/SLES.

(or "zypper source-install --build-deps-only Mesa" which is the same but more 
expressive)

> 
> > +  ... # others
> > 
> >  </pre>
> > 
> > -
> > 
> >  <h1 id="autoconf">2. Building with autoconf (Linux/Unix/X11)</h1>
> >  
> >  <p>
> > 
> > @@ -139,22 +160,30 @@ This will create:
> >  </ul>
> >  <p>
> >  Put them all in the same directory to test them.
> > 
> > +
> > +Additional information is available in <a
> > href="README.WIN32">README.WIN32</a>. +
> > 
> >  </p>
> > 
> > -<h1 id="other">4. Building for other systems</h1>
> > +<h1 id="android">4. Building with AOSP (Android)</h1>
> > 
> >  <p>
> > 
> > -Documentation for other environments (some may be very out of date):
> > +Currently one can build mesa for Android as part of the AOPS project, yet
> 
> "Mesa" :)

And "AOSP" not "AOPS" :)

> 
> > +your experience might vary.
> > 
> >  </p>
> > 
> > -<ul>
> > -<li><a href="README.VMS">README.VMS</a> - VMS
> > -<li><a href="README.CYGWIN">README.CYGWIN</a> - Cygwin
> > -<li><a href="README.WIN32">README.WIN32</a> - Win32
> > -</ul>
> > +<p>
> > +In order to achieve that one should update their local manifest to point
> > to the +upstream repo, set the approapriate BOARD_GPU_DRIVERS and build
> > the +libGLES_mesa library.
> > +</p>
> > 
> > +<p>
> > +FINISHME: Improve on the instructions add references to Rob H
> > repos/Jenkins, +Android-x86 and/or other resources.
> > +</p>
> 
> Did you mean to leave that in?
> 
> Other than these few notes, the series is:
> Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch>
> 
> Cheers,
>   Eric
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