On 18 Aug 2006, at 20:32, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
First, I believe there /is/ a binary of 0.9.10 kicking about, no idea if it's universal or not. Secondly, I do have a working FG tree on mac, but have been super-ultra-busy this summer, and will continue to be so until October. The good news is, in October I'm getting a Mac Pro (currently I only have a 1Ghz PowerBook), which should make building and running FG a pleasure rather than a 120 second chore each time I need to start it. Thirdly, I do have X-Code projects for PLIB, SimGear and FlightGear, that work. The problem is there's a fair set of source changes to makes them build (practically all to do with changing include paths to be of a Mac-friendly form). This means you can't use the projects on a virgin CVS checkout, which is something I really need to sit down and fix .... but I haven't had the time. So, I am very very reluctant to step up to the maintainer plate, because I know my time availability can alter drastically. On the other hand, I am able to contribute code at random intervals (in the form of patches); it's the release engineering side of things that gets me down. If I fix up my project files, and get them added to CVS, then anyone with access to a Mac can build packages, and we can produce a shell script that runs 'xcodebuild' (the command-line driver) and the packaging tools to produce a complete disk image. (I've done this for one of the WorldForge clients, and it works pretty well) Hopefully this combined with some other offers help might result in a long-term Mac build solution. James PS - Mac development and flying would be a lot easier if it wasn't for the glacial startup times, so if any cross-platform people want to optimise any area, that would be my suggestion. Even on my 1Ghz PB, I can get 20-30fps once flying, but 90 seconds (it feels like hours, but I've timed it) is just ridiculous. Last time I profiled it, character processing of the nav DBs was a pretty high offender, any chance of switching to a cached binary format? Maybe even one that can be loaded incrementally? Especially if Durk and co are adding airways, taxi-way routing, etc, etc. -- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. |
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