diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LLVM/LLVM-4.0.1-intel-2017b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LLVM/LLVM-4.0.1-intel-2017b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0803920d3920
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LLVM/LLVM-4.0.1-intel-2017b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'LLVM'
+version = '4.0.1'
+
+homepage = "http://llvm.org/"
+description = """The LLVM Core libraries provide a modern source- and target-independent
+ optimizer, along with code generation support for many popular CPUs
+ (as well as some less common ones!) These libraries are built around a well
+ specified code representation known as the LLVM intermediate representation
+ ("LLVM IR"). The LLVM Core libraries are well documented, and it is
+ particularly easy to invent your own language (or port an existing compiler)
+ to use LLVM as an optimizer and code generator."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017b'}
+toolchainopts = {'cstd': 'gnu++11'}
+
+source_urls = ["http://llvm.org/releases/%(version)s"]
+sources = ["llvm-%(version)s.src.tar.xz"]
+checksums = ['da783db1f82d516791179fe103c71706046561f7972b18f0049242dee6712b51']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.9.5'),
+    ('Python', '2.7.14'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+]
+
+configopts = '-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="$LDFLAGS -shared-intel" '
+# required to install extra tools in bin/
+configopts += "-DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 -DLLVM_ENABLE_ZLIB=ON -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=1 "
+configopts += '-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release '
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/llvm-ar', 'bin/FileCheck'],
+    'dirs': ['include/llvm', 'include/llvm-c'],
+}
+
+separate_build_dir = True
+
+moduleclass = 'compiler'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libGLU/libGLU-9.0.0-intel-2017b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libGLU/libGLU-9.0.0-intel-2017b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a571bc2d5c84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libGLU/libGLU-9.0.0-intel-2017b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libGLU'
+version = '9.0.0'
+
+homepage = 'ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/'
+description = """The OpenGL Utility Library (GLU) is a computer graphics library for OpenGL. """
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017b'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/']
+sources = ['glu-%(version)s.tar.bz2']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Mesa', '17.2.4'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libGLU.so.1'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.88-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.88-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b42941af78c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.88-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libdrm'
+version = '2.4.88'
+
+homepage = 'http://dri.freedesktop.org'
+description = """Direct Rendering Manager runtime library."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '6.4.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['a8b458db6a73c717baee2e249d39511fb6f5c0f5f24dee2770935eddeda1a017']
+
+builddependencies = [('binutils', '2.28')]
+dependencies = [('X11', '20171023')]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/xf86drm.h', 'include/xf86drmMode.h', 'lib/libdrm_intel.%s' % SHLIB_EXT,
+              'lib/libdrm_radeon.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libdrm.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libkms.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['include/libdrm', 'include/libkms', 'lib/pkgconfig'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mako/Mako-1.0.7-intel-2017b-Python-2.7.14.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mako/Mako-1.0.7-intel-2017b-Python-2.7.14.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba493f56eb50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mako/Mako-1.0.7-intel-2017b-Python-2.7.14.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'Mako'
+version = '1.0.7'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.makotemplates.org'
+description = """A super-fast templating language that borrows the best ideas from the existing templating languages"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017b'}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['4e02fde57bd4abb5ec400181e4c314f56ac3e49ba4fb8b0d50bba18cb27d25ae']
+
+dependencies = [('Python', '2.7.14')]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/mako-render'],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/%(name)s-%(version)s-py%(pyshortver)s.egg'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4-intel-2017b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4-intel-2017b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..181171b7aaf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4-intel-2017b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# the purpose of the easyconfig is to build a Mesa for software rendering,
+# not hardware rendering. This means you want at least SSE4.2. We build:
+# - llvmpipe: the high-performance Gallium LLVM driver
+# - swr: Intel's OpenSWR
+# it will try to use the llvmpipe by default. It you want swr, do:
+# GALLIUM_DRIVER=swr
+
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Mesa'
+version = '17.2.4'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.mesa3d.org/'
+description = """Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification -
+ a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017b'}
+# swr detects and builds parts specific for AVX and AVX2. If we use
+# -xHost, this always gets overwritten and will fail.
+toolchainopts = {'optarch': False}
+
+source_urls = [
+    'https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/',
+    'https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/%(version)s',
+    'ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/%(version)s',
+    'ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/older-versions/%(version_major)s.x/%(version)s',
+]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+patches = ['Mesa-%(version)s_fix-strip-llvm-flags.patch']
+checksums = [
+    '5ba408fecd6e1132e5490eec1a2f04466214e4c65c8b89b331be844768c2e550',  # mesa-17.2.4.tar.xz
+    '5aa4e92ed96e3d47ffbecd1ec3a1642407dff11995c5585eb5e06c396654ee30',  # Mesa-17.2.4_fix-strip-llvm-flags.patch
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('flex', '2.6.4'),
+    ('Bison', '3.0.4'),
+    ('Autotools', '20170619'),
+    ('pkg-config', '0.29.2'),
+    ('Mako', '1.0.7', '-Python-2.7.14'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.4'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('nettle', '3.3'),
+    ('libdrm', '2.4.88'),
+    ('LLVM', '5.0.0'),
+    ('X11', '20171023'),
+]
+
+# GLU is not part anymore of Mesa package!
+configopts = " --disable-osmesa --enable-gallium-osmesa --enable-gallium-llvm --enable-glx --disable-dri"
+configopts += " --disable-gbm --disable-driglx-direct --with-gallium-drivers='swrast,swr' --disable-egl"
+configopts += " --with-osmesa-bits=32 --enable-texture-float --enable-llvm-shared-libs "
+
+buildopts = 'V=1'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libGL.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libOSMesa.%s' % SHLIB_EXT,
+              'lib/libGLESv1_CM.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libGLESv2.%s' % SHLIB_EXT,
+              'include/GL/glext.h', 'include/GL/gl_mangle.h',
+              'include/GL/glx.h', 'include/GL/osmesa.h',
+              'include/GL/gl.h', 'include/GL/glxext.h',
+              'include/GL/glx_mangle.h', 'include/GLES/gl.h',
+              'include/GLES2/gl2.h', 'include/GLES3/gl3.h'],
+    'dirs': []
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4_fix-strip-llvm-flags.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4_fix-strip-llvm-flags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..545bee2c9465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/Mesa/Mesa-17.2.4_fix-strip-llvm-flags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+strip out '-fp-model source' as a whole, rather than only stripping out '-fp-model' which leads to compilation errors:
+"File not found: 'source'"
+
+author: Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent), based on patch for Mesa 17.0.2 by Ward Poelmans (VUB)
+--- configure.orig	2017-11-11 19:54:40.966320129 +0100
++++ configure	2017-11-11 19:59:25.921932866 +0100
+@@ -22540,6 +22540,7 @@
+         -e 's/[[:space:]]+-O[^[:space:]]*//g' \
+         -e 's/[[:space:]]+-g[^[:space:]]*//g' \
+         -e 's/-fno-rtti[[:space:]]/-Fno-rtti /g' \
++        -e 's/[[:space]]+-fp-model[[:space:]][^[:space:]]*//g' \
+         -e 's/[[:space:]]+-f[^[:space:]]*//g' \
+         -e 's/-Fno-rtti[[:space:]]/-fno-rtti /g' \
+         -e 's/^[[:space:]]//' \