Jon S. Berndt > Sent: 10 December 2007 01:28 > To: Flightgear-Devel > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Building FlightGear, once again > > > For the first time in a very long time, I have a system on > which I should be able to build and run FlightGear. I had a > script some time ago that handled updating plib, simgear, and > flightgear from cvs, and then built compiled that. I think > things have changed quite a bit. > > I've got Cygwin and MS Visual C++ Express 2005. Which one > would be better for me to use? How different is the build > process at this time from what is was a few years ago? > > Where is the best resource on the FlightGear web site for me > to refer to for building FlightGear on Windows? >
Last time I tried (some time earlier this year) OSG wouldn't compile under Cygwin due to compiler version incompatibilities. I was forced to change to MSVC8, and haven't regretted it - the necessary project files for FG are supplied in cvs (although they aren't always up to date), and MSVC8 has a nice editor for xml and C++ (works quite well for Nasal too). Running FG under Cygwin has a performance penalty. On the other hand Cygwin is still needed for terrasync, and I have not found a method of applying patches under Windows, not that I've looked very hard - Cygwin does just fine. HTH Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
