Building Mesa for windows 7. Mesa 9.1

Question

I went through all the steps on the compiling / installing page on Mesa\'s site, and read the FAQ. The final command that you send to scons for compilation throws errors wi

Answer 1

Common scons options:

build=release
machine=x86
platform=windows
libgl-gdi

1. Linux (Debian Wheezy), toolchain=crossmingw: Fails during linking phase because it can't find __vscprintf, among other things. Works as of Debian Jessie 8.5 & Mesa d2f42a945ec0fbcc51b59cfd329258bd62ebf0d2 via:

   scons \
   toolchain=crossmingw \
   build=release \
   machine=x86 \
   platform=windows \
   libgl-gdi
   

   DLL is installed to build/windows-x86/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll

2. Windows, toolchain=mingw: Fails with "The command line is too long." despite multiple permutations of both snippits on LongCmdLinesOnWin32.

3. Windows, VS2012 Express, MSVC_VERSION=11.0: Succeeds after removing stray C99-isms from src/glsl/ralloc.c::ralloc_size().

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EDIT: More complete procedure:

1. Install Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop:

   http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-express-windows-desktop
   

2. Install MinGW:

   http://www.mingw.org/
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files
   mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe
   
   Run installer:
   Download latest repo catalogs
   Install to C:\MinGW (default)
   Check:
   * C compiler
   * C++ compiler
   * MSYS basic system
   * MinGW developer toolkit (should install msys-flex and msys-bison)
   

3. Install Python 2.7:

   http://www.python.org/download/
   http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/python-2.7.5.msi
   
   You have to use 32-bit Python because the Scons people only distribute 32-bit installers.
   
   Install for all users (default)
   Install to C:\Python27 (default)
   Use default install options/customizations
   

4. Install libxml2 for Python:

   http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
   libxml2-python-2.9.1.win32-py2.7.‌exe
   
   Installer should find the python install automagically
   

5. Install pywin32:

   http://pywin32.sourceforge.net/
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/pywin32-218.win32-py2.7.exe
   
   Installer should find the Python install automagically
   

6. Install Scons:

   http://www.scons.org/
   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/scons-2.3.0-setup.exe
   
   Installer should find the Python install automagically
   

7. Add these near the top of your PATH:

   C:\Python27\
   C:\Python27\Scripts
   

8. Download Mesa:

   ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/
   ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/9.1.5/MesaLib-9.1.5.zip
   
   Extract somewhere (C:\Mesa-9.1.5)
   

9. Start MSYS shell:

   C:\mingw\msys\1.0\msys.bat
   
   Change into mesa src directory:
   cd /c/Mesa-9.1.5/
   

10. Build Mesa:

    scons.py \
    build=release \
    machine=x86 \
    platform=windows \
    MSVC_VERSION=11.0 \
    libgl-gdi \
    

This should create an opengl32.dll in build\windows-x86\gallium\targets\libgl-gdi.

With a little bit more legwork it's possible to build llvmpipe.