Hi there,

Pooyan McSporran wrote:
> On 20/12/06, Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>[SNIP]
>>and I still cannot build terragear, taxidraw, fgsd on Linux
>>[SNIP]
> 
> Have you since had any luck with building terragear on Linux?  I've
> built it on my linux machine, albeit with some mucking about.  Let me
> know if I can be of any help.

No luck. At this point all I wish to do is create a more accurate
taxiway layout for some of my favourite airports in taxidraw (I
can do that in Windows, or run the Windows version of taxidraw).
I understand I can import those layouts into fgsd, in the X-plane
.dat format, then save the altered scenery back to fgfs - if thats
not correct please tell me, as I'll need to halt this entire
frustrating exercise until those features are added...

Compiling fgsd (I'm not doing terragear now) has proved way too
hard. Each dependency had its own dependencies on my suse 10.1
system, and some of those were very hard to build (very few are
in rpm's, so build from source is required). I thought I'd got
through all the required libs yesterday, but in some the config
scripts will allow you to make when some stuff is missing, that
is actually required by something else. Its an annoying mess,
and trying to make fgsd failed on a missing file which in turn
meant some functions were not declared which stopped the compiler.
It seems that when the config script is happy enough to create
the Makefile it still isn't a guarantee the software will build.

If I were a programmer I'd lump all the code into one project,
so that everything is there in one download - no more farting
about trying to download obscure libs after each failed attempt
at creating a makefile, and with the projects like fgsd/terragear it
amazes me that no-one who has successfully built these softwares
has then taken the liberty of packaging them in easy to use
stuff like debs and rpms, to save others from the misery...

:-(

Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.

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