mesa
brew install mesa
v26.1.3
MIT AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND HPND AND HPND-sell-variant AND ICU AND MIT-Khronos-old AND SGI-B-2.0 AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note)
Open-source 3D graphics library implementing OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics APIs.
Why you might care
Mesa is the standard graphics stack on Linux for GPU-accelerated rendering, providing OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware. It's essential as a runtime dependency for any graphical application or game needing hardware-accelerated graphics, and serves as the reference implementation for OpenGL specification compliance.
Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://www.mesa3d.org/
- Brew formula source: Formula/m/mesa.rb
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