Hello to all, First my congratulations to all the developers from FlightGear through the years for showing that open source can do it, excelent projects with excelent features like this one.
>From time to time I like to test FlightGear to see the status and to fly a little. I don't spend hours playing with FlighGear, problably I spend more hours trying to compile it. Also a fun part... :) Through this email I want to help others that are trying to compile FlightGear and give a status of the difficulties of doing so to the developers. Several different packages from different developers are used but in the end are the FlightGear users and developehrs that have problems. First the hardware: * AMD Athlon 1333 MHz * 512 MB Memory * Nvidia GeForce MX(?) The software: * SUSE Linux 10.0 with official SUSE updates (gcc 4.0.2, glibc 2.3.5, xorg 6.8.2) * sdl 1.2.8 (from SUSE 10.0) * freeglut 2.4.0 (from SUSE 10.0 and source) * plib 1.8.4 (compiled from source) * openal 0.0.8 (compiled from source * freealut 1.0.0 (compiled from source) * SimGear 0.3.9 (compiled from source) * FlightGear 0.9.9 (compiled from source) The compile order: 1 - plib 2 - openal 3 - freealut 4 - SimGear 5 - FlightGear Except when noted the compile procedure was ./configure && make && make install. The report (short description): * Problem compiling freealut, solved after compiling openal with "./configure --enable-arts --enable-sdl --enable-sdl". I found this solution after seeing the rpm spec file from the source rpm at the openal site. * Problem with fgfs. Crash with the output: "freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor". To try to solve I remove the SUSE freeglut binary and compiled from source the version 2.4.0. fgfs gave the same problem. * To be certain, removed and compiled everything again and the same problem continued. * Removed all again and compiled, now with the snapshot version of freeglut. The same problem withy fgfs. * I also tried the snapshot of FlightGear but it didn't compile. * Finally I looked at the output from "./configure --enable" and so the option to compile with sdl instead of glut. I runned configure with the --enable-sdl option and at last, fgfs worked. It was such a joy but was late at night and I went to bed. :) But now I have a question, what's the difference from using sdl instead of glut? Which one is best for FlighGear? I hope this info is valuable for the development of FlightGear. Regards, Luis Sismeiro P.S.: Please forward this email to the development list if you think is valuable there. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
