Problem during Mesa installation

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Hello, I have a problem.
I try to install Mesa 7.8 on CentOS 3.9 for i386 on VMVare 7.0.1
The Mesa I’m get from here:
http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
And try to install it like described here:
http://linux-sxs.org/multimedia/mesa.html

When I perform configuration stage:

[root@CentOS Mesa-7.8]# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

(root is actualy root)
This is what I get:

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checking pkg-config files for X11 are available… no
checking for X… no
configure: error: X11 development libraries needed for dri driver

(Three dots says that there is some output before)
Put attention to error.

Any idea?
Thank you very much forahead.

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You need to make sure you have the latest dri and libdrm package I think.

Alternatively use synaptic to get glut3 and glut3dev.

Works a charm :slight_smile:

3

I’m new in Linux, so what is a different between development library and non-development library, because they both .so? Arn’t they? “development” may be only code text file or library with debug information…

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More than “development library and non-development library”, this is about packaging :

  • binary “normal” package : for users, only the stripped compiled .so is needed
  • dev package : programmers need .h interfaces, debug versions, sometimes programming docs, etc.
  • src package is again different, it contains the library source code

Developpers using a library need both dev and normal, to compile then execute their programs.

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Thank you very much for reply :slight_smile:

glut3 instead of dri?
In other forum I found that I need X11 development packages,
when you say dri you mean X11 development packages?
In every case do you know where I search it?

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Thank you. You make me clear it now :slight_smile: