RE: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s)
-Original Message- From: Phil Spurr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2003 12:24 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s) Hi all I've recently (with help from Curt) managed to download and run the Win32 binaries and have been very impressed with all of your work in creating Flightgear. I would like to become involved with the project, but I'm looking at using Mandrake Linux as my platform. Is there someone out there who could answer my 'silly' questions as I'm new to using Linux as well - just to get me to the point of being able to compile successfully ! I'm no newcomer to programming, or flight sims / real flying / aircraft systems, but I'm struggling with two unknowns at once here. And if there's any reason to choose a different Linux/Windows platform, please tell me now before I go down the wrong avenue... Regards Phil I am not a programmer or pilot, but I use Cygwin on Win2K to build Flightgear. Other than a small hiccup with ld not looking in /usr/local/lib by default, it works perfectly. Having seen the stories on the list of people struggling to get 3D accelleration working in Linux, I am planning to stay with Win32 for the time being. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s)
Hi all I've recently (with help from Curt) managed to download and run the Win32 binaries and have been very impressed with all of your work in creating Flightgear. I would like to become involved with the project, but I'm looking at using Mandrake Linux as my platform. Is there someone out there who could answer my 'silly' questions as I'm new to using Linux as well - just to get me to the point of being able to compile successfully ! I'm no newcomer to programming, or flight sims / real flying / aircraft systems, but I'm struggling with two unknowns at once here. And if there's any reason to choose a different Linux/Windows platform, please tell me now before I go down the wrong avenue... Regards Phil ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s)
- Original Message - From: Phil Spurr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:24 PM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s) Hi all I've recently (with help from Curt) managed to download and run the Win32 binaries and have been very impressed with all of your work in creating Flightgear. I would like to become involved with the project, but I'm looking at using Mandrake Linux as my platform. Is there someone out there who could answer my 'silly' questions as I'm new to using Linux as well - just to get me to the point of being able to compile successfully ! I'm no newcomer to programming, or flight sims / real flying / aircraft systems, but I'm struggling with two unknowns at once here. And if there's any reason to choose a different Linux/Windows platform, please tell me now before I go down the wrong avenue... Regards Phil You can do equally well with any linux release, or cygwin on windows just get the latest plib, simgear, and flightgear cvs release when you are ready to try compiling :) I'm equally at home on either platform if you have questions :) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s)
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:24 am, Phil Spurr wrote: Hi all I've recently (with help from Curt) managed to download and run the Win32 binaries and have been very impressed with all of your work in creating Flightgear. I would like to become involved with the project, but I'm looking at using Mandrake Linux as my platform. Is there someone out there who could answer my 'silly' questions as I'm new to using Linux as well - just to get me to the point of being able to compile successfully ! I'm no newcomer to programming, or flight sims / real flying / aircraft systems, but I'm struggling with two unknowns at once here. And if there's any reason to choose a different Linux/Windows platform, please tell me now before I go down the wrong avenue... Phil I am using Mandrake 9.1 + KDE + FlightGear moderately successfully, i.e. I can compile plib, SimGear and FlightGear from cvs and run it. Flying skills are another question best left aside. [1] I have an Athlon 1.4GHz CPU, and a GeForce4 FX5600 video card. With nvidia graphics one has to use NVidia's binary (closed source) drivers, which should be OK on relatively modern cards. In short, Mandrake Linux is certainly a good platform for FlightGear. You must upgrade the automake that comes with Mandrake to build from cvs: see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.games.flightgear.general/4901 for a message from the FG Users list on this topic. If you have difficulties, let me know. If your hardware resembles mine, I've probably been there too. Regards Jonathan [1] I'm not a programmer, either, though I am an IS professional. And I don't have a pilot's licence. I'll get my coat... :¬) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
