[Mesa-users] instructions for installing mesa on Windows

[Bill York]

Hi again. I now have a working Mesa build for Windows. Here's a summary of what I did. All of the errors I saw along the way were because an essential tool was not installed. In fact, I just now pulled the latest mesa from git and it built cleanly on the first try.

1) install python 2.7
2) install scons (latest)
3) install mingw, flex, and bison
4) install libxml2 (from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, get libxml2-python-2.9.1.win-amd64-py2.7.exe)
5) install pywin32 (from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe)
6) install git
7) download mesa from git (see http://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html)
8) run scons
9) copy build\windows-x86_64-debug\mesa\drivers\windows\gdi\opengl32.dll to my application's bin directory

That was all I needed to make Mesa work with my program. I also tried the opengl32.dll from libgl-gdi but don't know it is a any better.

Bill

On Jun 18, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com<mailto:brianp at vmware.com>>
 wrote:

On 06/16/2013 10:44 AM, Bill York wrote:
After a bit of poking around, I got mesa to build on win64. Once I get my steps documented, I will post them to this group so others can see.

Meanwhile, the steps for installing the DLLs from this page seem out of date.

http://www.mesa3d.org/README.WIN32

Yeah, there hasn't been a lot of Windows support going on.  I'd love to have someone step up and do that.



In particular, glu32.dll is no longer there. Is there are new DLL I should install to my bin directory?

The GLU library is in its own git repo now (it was split out of Mesa's tree a couple years ago, IIRC).

Source tarballs are here:
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/

Unfortunately, there's no scons support for Windows builds.

-Brian


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