[Mesa-users] Building Mesa 10 for software rendering support only

[Brian Paul]

On 02/06/2015 03:54 PM, Rick Irons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking to build Mesa 10 such that it only supports software
> rendering using X11 and has the least number of build dependencies as
> possible.  My goal is to have a single Mesa build environment that will
> produce the same GL and GLU libraries that are using software rendering
> regardless of the Debian 7 system on which they are built.  Any idea’s
> on the correct  arguments to ‘configure’ that will produce such a Mesa
> configuration?  I have tried numerous permutations of the options to
> date with no success.
>
> Currently, we create a X11 based version of libGL.so and a version of
> libGLU.so using Mesa 7.2.  We use this software rendering version of
> Mesa in the event that hardware accelerated OpenGL is not available on a
> LINUX based system.  We have no idea of the capabilities of the systems
> where these libraries will be installed, so we opt to support only
> software rendering.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.

Try this:

./autogen.sh --enable-xlib-glx --disable-driglx-direct --disable-dri
make

-Brian