NeXT TM Mesa-OpenGL TM
by
Pascal Thibaudeau
pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr 
pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr (NeXTMail OK)

@(#) README 1.2 96/05/16 00:17:02

# Revision 1.2  1996/05/16  00:17:02 pascal thibaudeau 
# Mesa-1.2.8 fixed
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# Revision 1.1  1996/03/02  15:03:07 pascal thibaudeau 
# Mesa-1.2.7 fixed
# Initial revision
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1. Introduction

This is the README file for the NeXT version of the Mesa library.  
The file consists of information specific to the NeXT version of Mesa.
For more general information please read the README file in the main Mesa
directory.

2. Whats new?

See the general Mesa README for all new items in Mesa-1.2.8.  This
section will only discuss those items which are specific to the NeXT.

	0.2 Release
	=========
	- Some tk functions are now supported.
	- minor bugs are corrected.

	0.1 Release
	=========
	- Off-Screen rendering buffer is read by NXBitmapImageRep function.
	- 32bpp is directly supported.
	- WIDTH and HEIGHT are staticly defined.
	- The window style is NX_TITLEDSTYLE.
	- NeXT demos are straightforward ports of some book/ files.

3. The Distribution

NeXT Mesa is distributed in one form.  This should make it easier to 
download only what you need. The package is as follows:

	Mesa-1.2.8.tar.gz

This release contains the complete source to Mesa for the NeXT

4. Documentation

The Mesa WWW page is :  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html

There is also a general WWW page related to OpenGL under NeXTSTEP:
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/

5. Compiling Mesa

In order to compile NeXT Mesa you need the following items:

	NEXTSTEP Developper Kit Release 3.3
	NeXT Mesa-1.2.8 (source)

The project  files included with the NeXT Mesa source should work 
fine. The only things you may need to update are the access paths.
Simply typing "make next" should compile Mesa and a number of NeXT demo
programs found in the NeXT/ directory. This was tested on a i386,m68k running 
NEXTSTEP 3.3. 

6. Test suite

The NeXT version of Mesa does not pass many of the tests in the
demos or samples suites.  This is primarily due to dependencies in the 
suites on the size of particular X fonts, and other X related features.  We
will be working on developping a more general NeXT suite for Mesa under the
NeXT, but for now, you will not be able to pass many of the tests.  
It is, however, much better than the alpha release!

7. NeXT Mesa Mailing List

If you want to subscribe to the Mesa Mailing List, please send the following message to the address listproc@iqm.unicamp.br

subs mesa <your name>

For example:

subs mesa Pascal Thibaudeau

You will receive a welcome message from the list server when you have been
added to the list.  It tells you how to post messages to the list, how
to unsubscribe, etc.  Thanks to Pedro Vazquez for setting up the list.

8. Acknowledgements

I would also like to thank the following contributors :

Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org>:		   GNU3DKit Project
Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE>:  GNU3DKit Project

If you have comments or Bug reports don't hesitate to send them to:
Pascal Thibaudeau
pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr
pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr (NeXTMail OK)