Michael Basler wrote:
Hello,Hi,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? Regards, Michael -- Michael Basler, Jena, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/pmb.geo/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
As a lurker, I can't explain why things (mis)behave, but here is an observation or two. Of the 3 systems here that I build FlightGear on, all are following the latest CVS. Two are under Cygwin, and 1 on a linux system. One Cygwin system has the X packages installed, and run once or twice to verify it works. Since (very roughly) 6 weeks ago, it has been building (and running) without problems. That includes plib, SimGear, and FlightGear. A few months earlier I pulled a lot of hair getting the build working, with SimGear giving the most trouble. One thing that helped was the "--without-x" option to configure in all packages.
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