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Compiling FlightGear is not a task for novice users. Thus, if you're a beginner (we all were once) on a platform which binaries are available for, we recommend postponing this task and just starting with the binary distribution to get you flying. | Compiling FlightGear is not a task for novice users. Thus, if you're a beginner (we all were once) on a platform which binaries are available for, we recommend postponing this task and just starting with the binary distribution to get you flying. | ||
== Requirements == | == Requirements == | ||
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direct rendering: No | direct rendering: No | ||
Don't panic yet. This may just mean some required libraries for hardware accelerated graphic are missing. Go ahead and try installing | Don't panic yet. This may just mean some required libraries for hardware accelerated graphic are missing. Go ahead and try installing plib 1.8.5 and its dependencies first. If you still get the above message, then you will need to do some googling and troubleshoot yourself. | ||
== Dependencies == | == Dependencies == | ||
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** [http://openal.org OpenAL and ALUT] | ** [http://openal.org OpenAL and ALUT] | ||
** SimGear | ** SimGear | ||
*** [http://plib.sourceforge.net/ PLIB] | *** [http://plib.sourceforge.net/ PLIB]. Since march 2008, you will need version 1.8.5 - your distro probably supplies 1.8.4 still. | ||
**** For versions pre march/2008: (Free)GLUT or SDL (We recommend the use of SDL over Free/GLUT, [http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16153.html however since march 2008, FreeGLUT as well as SDL are both considered depreciated | **** For versions pre march/2008: (Free)GLUT or SDL (We recommend the use of SDL over Free/GLUT, [http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16153.html however since march 2008, FreeGLUT as well as SDL are both considered depreciated, please only use --enable-osgviewer during configuration instead]) | ||
*** [[ OpenSceneGraph ]] (svn trunk) | *** [[ OpenSceneGraph ]] (svn trunk for FlightGear/CVS and the latest preceding OSG release for a FlightGear release) | ||
*** You also need the development files for several basic libraries to build the software, among them the following (the package names are for Debian and derivatives(?)): | |||
**** libfreetype6-dev | **** libfreetype6-dev | ||
**** libjpeg62-dev | **** libjpeg62-dev | ||
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**** libxmu-dev | **** libxmu-dev | ||
**** libxi-dev | **** libxi-dev | ||
**** zlib1g-dev | |||
**** libglut3-dev | |||
If you attack the above dependencies in the order listed below, you should be good: | If you attack the above dependencies in the order listed below, you should be good: | ||