This is an extraction of the Mesa 3-D library's software rasterizer and offscreen rendering implementation of OpenGL 2.1 style APIs. For ease of setup and compilation, the 7.0.4 release of Mesa was used as a basis. (This fork is not affiliated with the Mesa project - for the modern implementation see https://mesa3d.org)

The goals of this particular fork are NOT speed, but rather a portable, reliable cross platform rendering method that does not require any outside support from the OS or graphics hardware. The idea is to guarantee an application's ability to produce scene rasterizations as images even when the primary graphics stack of the machine is unavailable.

The examples directory may simply be removed if a project bundling the libosmesa sources doesn't wish to include it - the build system will adapt appropriately.

Changes are (or at least are intended to be) relatively minor and include things like static analyzer clean-ups and updating header includes to avoid accidentally including system versions of gl.h.