Michael Basler writes: > I've been building FlightGear under Cygwin for quite a time now, and it > works great. I know I had to completely remove X Windows from Cygwin for > avoiding interference with FlightGear. I noticed problems included (at > least) incompatible opengl libs being linked against in case of X windows > being installed, but there may be more trouble hidden. > > Now with time there's a growing number of alternative (in my case TeX > related) graphical programs requiring Cygwin's X server and X libs for > building. I understand the fathers of FlightGear don't want to port Flight > Gear to Cygwin's X port, which they may have good reason for. > > I certainly could donate another 1 GB to a second Cygwin tree, which is > neither an elegant nor an effective solution, though. > > Thus, here's my simple question: Would it be hard to modify FlightGear's > build system (i.e. the Cygwin part of it) to not link against Cygwin's X > libs in case they are installed?
My understanding of the issue was that the Cygwin X11 included a version of opengl that was broken. If that's not the case, then someone needs to sit down and figure out what the issues are and then hopefully we can find solutions and build automatic detection into the configure.ac script. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
