Installation of meshalyzer

Meshalyzer is regularly used on Linux and Mac machines. It has worked under Windows as well.

Prerequisities

libpng
FLTK 1.3.x. Manually downloadad and installed is better since the prepackaged versions often have issues with fltk-config.
glew.
glut
To make the "windowless" rendering version, OSMesa
To read in VTK VTU format meshes, install VTK development files

Except for fltk, using your package manager is recommended for installing these packages if possible. On OSX, homebrew works for me.

Compiling

If VTK is installed, edit the make.conf to set the VTK_INC and VTK_DIR variables to point to the directories containing the VTK header files and libraries, respectively. Comment them out otherwise.
Type "make"
For the windowless version, type "make mesalyzer"
The compiled executables will be found in the src/ directory.
Copy the binaries to a suitable location

Documentation

To compile (LaTeX required)

cd manual
pdflatex manual
pdflatex manual