You *must* have the plib library installed on your system to build the FGFS simulator!" You can get the original library from: http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/plib/ This library is also mirrored (identical) at: ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Source/plib-1.0.2.tar.gz Build notes: When you run "./configure" to configure the package, plib's defaults to installing the headers in /usr/local/plib/include and the libraries in /usr/local/plib/lib. If you would prefer to install these in /usr/local/include/plib/ and /usr/local/lib, then run configure with the following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --includedir=/usr/local/include/plib Installing like this makes it much easier for the fgfs configure script to locate the plib includes and libs.