-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have been doing my best to follow the development of FlightGear and TerraGear by reading the mailing list(s), googling, and comparing the various helpful (and sometimes dated) webpages devoted to these tools & applications. FWIW, Geoff Mclane's 'prerequesites' page has been most helpful; thank you! And thanks to everyone involved in these projects-- I have become quite interested, and I think FLightGear is fantastic. Based on everything I have read about the bits and pieces (deps) needed to build this stuff, I have tried to select all the newest sourcecode from CVS/GIT/SVN. If someone notices that I have mistakenly built something *old*, please point this out :) as I would like to stay current with development.
So, why I am here now: Just wanted to give a tiny bit of information to A) help folks maybe get terragear built, and B) to possibly point out a problem with the terragear build process. NOTE: I'm decent with bash, but NOT a C or C++ programmer in any way, so keep in mind I am not criticizing anyone or anything in any way, just trying to learn and help and follow along. Here's what I've got built/installed (which I *hope* are the _very_ latest FG/TG packages): 1) OpenSceneGraph-2.9.3 from SVN, Boost-1.38.0, Cmake-2.6, gpc- 2.3.3, freealut-1.1.0, gts-0.7.6, newmat-11D, openal-1.7.411, plib- 1.8.5. 2) FlightGear from CVS against SimGear from GIT, and built TerraGear-cs from GIT against SimGear-cs from GIT. Now, the fun details: I have installed BOTH simgear and simgear-cs packages on my system** simultaneously but one must guide flightgear and terragear- cs to make sure they each build against the correct one. I installed 'simgear-non-cs' first, and make a symlink called 'simgear' pointing to each of /usr/lib/simgear-non-cs and /usr/include/simgear-non-cs and build flightgear against it. This was somewhat painless. Then, installed 'simgear-cs' and recreated new symlinks as above, pointing now to the respective 'simgear-cs' folders, and built TerraGear-cs against that. (I read somewhere to remove the -O2 optimization on something or other, but I can't recall what/where and I didn't do that; maybe next build.) Ultimately the TerraGear-cs build worked, BUT: while building it, the 'make' would repeatedly quit with **ERRORs, first in /src/lib/array and on and on at a load of different places, with various reasons for the errors: missing libraries, cxx problems, etc... The best way I can describe what was happening was it appeared to be like a race condition. The build was apparently supposed to build something it later depended on (like a shared lib), and then _use_ that item, but it was trying to _use_ the item before it actually became available (eg libArray.a). After determining that the missing pieces were actually there (hence no real reason for error), I just kept running 'make' over and over on the sources until finally it finished! It took about '10' make commands I guess. NOTE: I was not using -J3 with the make commands. I have had this race-like condition happen on occasion with other builds in the past, of other software, and don't know why it happened then either, but maybe this is happening to some other FG/TG users, and they can try the same thing: keep running make until it completes :) Hope this helps someone. Cheers, and thanks, and now on with the show: try making some scenery/civilization for Nova Scotia, Canada, airport=CYHZ! Sasha Alexandr **system = Slackware 11.0 with lots of upgrades, kernel=2.6.28.7; Intel Core2, 4GB RAM, dual nvidia cards, SLI motherboard. (It's a 64-bit machine, but the Slackware is 32bit until I manage to get Slamd-64 Linux and try that out with flightgear and friends-- I'm on sloooow dialup and short of cash right now.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: iso-8859-1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wpwEAQMCAAYFAknoD4gACgkQBdgPeajIhBm1WQP9HG5Fv1h4TPhS8j3vYnike3KCLusR Ym/sRb4M0rixbs3gMKRMtAC+QFu0jqOtA1jVErHO0WZZ80e7Tu9QE+3vZx03ZkQEEoGf 3FfKpkI/xcG9nGFZFDjBeVtM7Vy1X9U7RwTz0KjaLtT9jFsCTV9TDGPOsk9CfeWsJ9Hq 2wUCnnQ= =flSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Become a medical transcriptionist at home, at your own pace. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/BLSrjkqfMmdoRgVPRLAYSE69GfB09PkNfbeoT7hJZv8uP0m9HcK16iBkSEQ/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
