diff --git a/docs-mini/README.MacOS b/docs-mini/README.MacOS index 91cf66d98..250a10d54 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.MacOS +++ b/docs-mini/README.MacOS @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +June 29, 2001 Update: + +This information is very old and incomplete. If you have interest in +building FlightGear for the Mac, I suggest you contact Darrell +Walisser for more information, or post to the +flightgear-devel@lists.sf.net mailing list. + + + README.MacOS Jan 12, 1999. diff --git a/docs-mini/README.SimGear b/docs-mini/README.SimGear index 67efb8599..19e15326f 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.SimGear +++ b/docs-mini/README.SimGear @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -21 February 2000 - CLO +21 February 2001 - CLO As of version 0.7.2, FlightGear now requires the SimGear supporting libraries to be installed before configuring and building FlightGear. @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ You must also have SimGear installed if you build the TerraGear scenery creating tools (TerraGear is not required to run the simulator). -You can get a copy of SimGear from the same place you get FlightGear: +You can get a copy of SimGear from the simgear web page: - ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Source/ + http://www.simgear.org SimGear build notes: diff --git a/docs-mini/README.Unix b/docs-mini/README.Unix index 9494facf8..25d15ded9 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.Unix +++ b/docs-mini/README.Unix @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ suggest that I include the answer here. I. Compilers and Portability ============================ -Flight Gear is known to build with egcs-1.1 and higher, as well as +FlightGear is known to build with egcs-1.1 and higher, as well as gcc-2.8 and higher. Your mileage may vary with earlier versions of these compilers although support for gcc-2.7.x is mostly there. @@ -20,11 +20,18 @@ platforms, but I must depend on others to make sure their favorite platform and compiler is well supported. -II. GLUT -======== +II. OpenGL +========== -Flight Gear requires GLUT version 3.7 or later (aka GameGLUT._ GLUT -needs to be installed on your system before you can build Flight Gear. +FlightGear requires accelerated OpenGL drivers to be properly +installed and configured on your system. + + +III. GLUT +========= + +FlightGear requires GLUT version 3.7 or later (aka GameGLUT._ GLUT +needs to be installed on your system before you can build FlightGear. GLUT can be found at: http://reality.sgi.com/opengl/glut3/glut3.html @@ -38,172 +45,13 @@ you can write a single OpenGL program that works on both Win32 PCs and X11 workstations. -III. Joystick Support +IV. Joystick Support ===================== -GLUT only has win32 joystick support but even at that, it is not well -implimented. So we use Steve Backer's joystick library when possible, -and fall back to GLUT for win32 until Steve's library adds win32 -support. +We use the plib joystick library for joystick support. To make sure joystick support is included when building under Linux: - make sure you have the proper joystick module installed. - make sure the proper devices are created in /dev. - /usr/include/linux/joystick.h must exist on your system. - - -IV. Procedure to build FGFS with Native SGI Irix Compilers from CVS Sources -=========================================================================== - -(Contributed by Todd Smith with modifications -and updates by Curt Olson) - -Download the latest version of plib (1.0.18) from: - - http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/plib/ - -Configure it with the default prefix of /usr/local which places -everthing in a tree rooted at /usr/local/plib: - - sh$ CC="cc -Xcpluscomm" CXX=CC ./configure - -*Before* running make, fix up the plib Makefiles using the script -provided with the Flight Gear distribution: - - find . -name Makefile -exec .../src/FlightGear-0.7.x/irix-hack.pl {} \; - -This applies a fix in all the Makefiles to the lib creation command -(to use CC -ar rather than ar) as per a tip in the SGI pipeline -periodical. - -Now, make and install plib. - -Download the latest fgfs source snapshot from: - - ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Source/Snapshots/ - -Configure and build fgfs as you did plib: - - sh$ CC="cc -Xcpluscomm" CXX=CC ./configure - sh$ find . -name Makefile -exec .../src/FlightGear-0.7.x/irix-hack.pl {} \; - - -V. Additional Notes for Building from CVS Sources -================================================== - -(Contributed by Todd Smith ) -and updates by Curt Olson) - -Download the FlightGear-0.7.x via anonymous cvs as usual, then do: - -> aclocal # normal -> automake -a -i # added '-i' flag to avoid dependency calc - # that only sgi cc/CC doesn't support -> autoconf # normal - -Note the change in automake's command argument. - -Now set env variables to use native compilers (csh syntax). - -> setenv CC cc -> setenv CXX CC -> setenv CFLAGS '-Xcpluscomm -DEBUG:suppress=1001,1012,1014, - 1116,1172,1174,1401,1460,1551,1552' -> setenv CXXFLAGS '-DEBUG:suppress=1001,1012,1014,1116,1172, - 1174,1401,1460,1551,1552,3303,3322' - -The '-DEBUG:suppress=' stuff just suppresses anonying warnings during -compile. The meaning of each one is shown later in this file. -You can use all or none of these here. - -> setenv CPPFLAGS '-woff 1014' - -This is required so that configure will really believe that plib -is installed. ( Otherwise a compiler warning makes configure -that plib/pu.h couldn't be found. ) - -> ./configure -> find . -name Makefile -exec irix-hack.pl {} \; # normal irix hack -> gmake - -Runs great. - -Todd -msmith@sikorsky.com - -------------------------------------------- -Warnings that I get. Ignore at your lesiure. - -C and C++: -warning(1001): last line of file ends without a newline -warning(1012): parsing restarts here after previous syntax error -warning(1014): extra text after expected end of preprocessing directive (breaks configure) -warning(1116): non-void function "poly_index_init" should return a value -warning(1172): subscript out of range -warning(1174): variable "j" was declared but never referenced -warning(1401): qualified name is not allowed in member declaration -warning(1460): function "..." redeclared "inline" after being called -warning(1551): variable "Altitude" is used before its value is set -warning(1552): variable "last" was set but never used - -C++ only: -warning(3303): type qualifier on return type is meaningless -warning(3322): omission of explicit type is nonstandard ("int" assumed) - - -VI. Additional Native SGI Irix Compilers Notes -============================================== - -Fixing all the Makefiles' with irix-hack.pl is *VERY* important for -your success): - - find . -name Makefile -exec irix-hack.pl {} \; - -This touches up the Makefiles to build libfoo.a with - - CC -ar -o libfoo.a file1.o file2.o ... - -The traditional method is to run: - - ar cru libfoo.a file1.o file2.o - -I wonder if this means that the native SGI "ar" is somewhat broke? - -Note, you should make sure you have perl installed on your system. The -"irix-hack.pl" script assumes that perl is located in /usr/bin/perl so -if this isn't the proper location on your system, change it in the first -line of "irix-hack.pl" before running the above command. One way to see -if perl is on your system (and determine where) is to run: - - which perl - -Perl can be installed from "eoe.sw.gifts_perl" or can be fetched and -built from the net. - -Finally you should run Gnu make. The native Irix make utility just -can't handle the makefiles generated by the automake program. Thus -you will need to use Gnu make. It's called "gmake" on my system so I -just run: - - gmake - -Don't worry about the make failing in the Tools directory. That's all -under construction stuff right now (10/7/99) and if you get that far, -rejoice because it means the simulator was successfully built in the -Simulator/Main subdirectory. - -Special note for those Irix users using the native compilers *AND* checking -out the current source tree via CVS: - -You will need to run "aclocal ; automake -a ; autoconf" as per -README.autoconf, but you need an additional flag for automake to disable -automatic dependency building (which breaks the native Irix compilers.) -You should instead run: - - aclocal ; automake -a --include-deps; autoconf - -Then, proceed on to the configure step. - -Questions? I realize this section is a big heap of random information so -if something isn't quite working for you, please ask. diff --git a/docs-mini/README.anoncvs b/docs-mini/README.anoncvs deleted file mode 100644 index 81705b833..000000000 --- a/docs-mini/README.anoncvs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -Flight Gear now has an anonymous CVS repository. Currently, it is read -only, but it will allow you to maintain your own absolutely up to date -source tree. You will also be able to do diffs, extract older versions -of files, and all the other fancy CVS stuff. - -Instructions for accessing the FG cvs repository can be found by -following the "CVS Resources" link from the main FG web page: - - http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/ - diff --git a/docs-mini/README.autoconf b/docs-mini/README.autoconf index 6f30c5410..ba22f3478 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.autoconf +++ b/docs-mini/README.autoconf @@ -1,26 +1,18 @@ Flight Gear uses the Gnu autoconf and automake tools for managing -Makefiles. It also uses libtool to manage building shared and static -libraries. Key input files for this system are: +Makefiles. Key input files for this system are: configure.in - Top level directory Makefile.am - One in each subdirectory Include/config.in - input file for building config.h -If you need to modify any of these files, you will need to build and -install the following packages: +If you need to modify any of these files, you will need to install the +following packages. If you don't have a prebuilt package for your OS, +you can fetch them from the locations listed below: - - GNU autoconf 2.12 (available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu) - - GNU automake 1.2h (available from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey) + - GNU autoconf (available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu) + - GNU automake (available from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey) -Libtool is not currently used: - - - GNU libtool 1.2 (available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu) - (or maybe ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu) - - After upgrading libtool, if we were using it, you would want to run: - - libtoolize --force - -When making a change to any of these files you will need to run: +After making a change to configure.in you will need to run: aclocal ; automake -a ; autoconf diff --git a/docs-mini/README.plib b/docs-mini/README.plib index b9116697a..65597287b 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.plib +++ b/docs-mini/README.plib @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ -You *must* have the plib version 1.1.x or later installed on your -system to build the FGFS simulator!" Special note: Flight Gear is no -longer compatible with the 1.0.x versions of plib. +You *must* have plib version 1.4.x or later installed on your system +to build FlightGear!" Flight Gear is no longer compatible with the +earlier versions of the library. You can get the latest version of plib from: - http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/plib/ + http://plib.sourceforge.net Build notes: You should be able to just run "./configure" to configure the package and use all of plib's defaults. Then run "make" followed by "make install". By default, plib installs itself into /usr so if you don't -like this, be sure to specify an alternate prefix such as --prefix=/usr/local +like this, be sure to specify an alternate prefix such as +--prefix=/usr/local