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The FlightGear developers generally release a stable packaged version of FlightGear, with an easy install wizard, about once or twice a year. For convenience, most FlightGear users download and install these packages.
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  |I made a commit to SimGear that fixes compilation with current OSG sources. Unfortunately, FlightGear doesn't actually work with this OSG due to a bug in the mesh optimizer. If you want to use current OSG, check the osg-submissions mailing list for my fix.
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    |title=<nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] OSG 3.3.8 heads up</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Tim Moore</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-19</nowiki>
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The [[FlightGear]] developers generally release a stable packaged version of FlightGear, with an easy install wizard, about once or twice a year. For convenience, most FlightGear users download and install these packages.


However, the source files used to build the whole FlightGear package are continuously being developed by dozens of contributors, who collaborate using CVS to create a new "unstable" version every few days. If you want to use one of these unstable versions, or tinker with the source files to create your own custom version, the pages below describe how to compile the FlightGear package from the CVS source files.
However, the source files used to '''build the whole FlightGear package''' are continuously being developed by dozens of contributors, who collaborate using the source code management system [[Git]] to create a new "unstable" version every few days. If you want to use one of these unstable versions, or tinker with the source files to create your own custom version, the pages below describe how to compile the FlightGear package from the Git source files (repository at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear http://sourceforge.net]).


'''Due to a hardware failure, the CVS servers of the FlightGear source and data repository are currently down. As a result, many links on this or other pages describing the built of FlightGear from CVS are obsolete.
If you'd like to use an integrated development environment, illustrated instructions for building FlightGear and its dependencies can be found in [[Howto:Build FlightGear with NetBeans using CMake]], this should work on both, Windows and Linux systems (NetBeans being a cross-platform IDE).
Some highly skilled people are currently working on a substitute for the CVS system and it is already complete. Repository at: [http://www.gitorious.org/fg Gitorious.org]'''
 
Another option to run the latest code without having to compile everything yourself, is using a precompiled binary provided by the [[FlightGear Build Server]] which is based on Jenkins.


'''Building FlightGear''' may refer to:
'''Building FlightGear''' may refer to:
* [[Superbuild|Using CMake Superbuilds]]
* [[Superbuild on Windows|Using CMake Superbuild - Windows]]
* [[Building using CMake]]
* [[Building using CMake - Windows]]
* [[Building FlightGear - Linux]]
* [[Building FlightGear - Linux]]
* [[Scripted Compilation on Linux Debian/Ubuntu|Building using Linux bash script]]
'''Old pages''' :
* [http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/how-to-build-flightgear-cvs-on-mac-os-x/ Building FlightGear - Mac OS X]
* [http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/how-to-build-flightgear-cvs-on-mac-os-x/ Building FlightGear - Mac OS X]
* [[Building FlightGear - Windows]]
* [[Updating FlightGear on Windows]] - get a recently updated version without compiling
* [[Updating FlightGear on Windows]] - get a recently updated version without compiling
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