On Thursday 08 January 2009, Jon Stockill wrote: > Chris Perry wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using fgfs for a few years and have just downloaded > > and compiled the new version 1.9.0. > > > > I am using a Debian 64bit distribution Etch (AMD64). > > > > I had to fiddle the system bit to get everything to compile. > > After a lot of head scratching and cussing, I have fgfs binary. > > > > But alas, I have some run time errors that prevent the program > > from initialising. > > > > I have compiled the OSG, glutl, openAL, plib and simgear > > ibraries under /usr/local/lib include and lib64 and find it > > necessary to: export > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64 and then > > fgfs > > > > Specifically the error I get is: > > Warning: Could not find plugin to read objects from file > > "/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/c172p/splash.png". > > Warning: Could not find plugin to read objects from file > > "/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/c172p/Models/interio > >r.png". osgDB ac3d reader: could not read texture "interior.png" > > ... > > Segmentation fault > > > > The png files are on the system. The error message from osgDB > > says it could not find a plugin to read the png files. > > > > Can you advise which software component is broken (osg?) and > > how I might troble-shoot the missing plugin? > > I recieved one bad message from ./configure when compiling OSG. > > That was: -- ERROR: wxWidgets was not found. > > configure completed ok and I went on to make without > > encountering errors. > > > > I also failed 1 of the two test when compiling SimGear v1.9 > > (make check). I gathered this was ok, or expected. Right? > > > > Note I know nothing of the software in use here and have > > rudimentary software compile skills but can use raw logic to > > work out most things. Do I need some help with the message from > > osg, or should I look elsewhere? > > The libs (or possibly just the dev package) for png support > wasn't found, so OSG didn't build the png plugin. > > Jon
Yes - check that you have the libpng-dev package installed. It will probably be called libpngXX-dev, where XX seems to be '12' on etch. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
