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   libopenal-dev  libopenscenegraph-dev                  libqt5opengl5-dev \
   libopenal-dev  libopenscenegraph-dev                  libqt5opengl5-dev \
   librsvg2-dev    libxml2-dev      qt5-default          qtdeclarative5-dev"
   librsvg2-dev    libxml2-dev      qt5-default          qtdeclarative5-dev"
; additional dependencies (tested with Debian 9.3)
su -c "apt-get install  \
  qtbase5-private-dev          qtdeclarative5-private-dev"


: If you prefer you might replace "libcurl4-openssl-dev" by "libcurl4-gnutls-dev".
: If you prefer you might replace "libcurl4-openssl-dev" by "libcurl4-gnutls-dev".

Revision as of 16:37, 29 January 2018

HowTo build FlightGear stable (2017.3) or bleeding edge development version, hereinafter simply called next, on Devuan GNU/Linux Stable (Jessie). Users of Testing or Unstable at least have to change package names (version numbering) accordingly.
Instructions probabaly apply on Debian GNU/Linux Jessie, too.

The meaning of this article is to be a short, checklist like, overview of the specific steps to compile FlightGear and components on Debian. For more detailed information please refer to the main article Building FlightGear on Linux.


Zeichen 144 icon.png For beginners with compiling it is highly recommended to follow this guide step by step. Any modification to most of the here used commands may cause trouble.


Requirements and Preparations

A bunch of packages (as well as some of their dependencies) are required to compile FlightGear:

Tools
su -c "apt-get install automake cmake coreutils g++ gcc git make sed subversion"


Dependencies
su -c "apt-get install  \
  freeglut3-dev   libboost-dev      libcurl4-openssl-dev  libdbus-1-dev \
  libfltk1.3-dev  libglew-dev       libgtkglext1-dev      libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
  libopenal-dev   libopenscenegraph-dev                   libqt5opengl5-dev \
  librsvg2-dev    libxml2-dev       qt5-default           qtdeclarative5-dev"
additional dependencies (tested with Debian 9.3)
su -c "apt-get install  \
  qtbase5-private-dev           qtdeclarative5-private-dev"


If you prefer you might replace "libcurl4-openssl-dev" by "libcurl4-gnutls-dev".
If "libjpeg62-turbo-dev" breaks package dependencies, just install one of the other versions' -dev.
Add "libudev-dev" if you need FG's feature -D EVENT_INPUT=ON.
Zeichen 144 icon.png During installation development packages of libraries which are going to be compiled must not be installed. They can safely be re-installed after compilation. Namely these are "libplib-dev" and "simgear-dev".


Build and install

Because we are going to install versions different to the ones in the Debian repositories, it is recommended to install FlightGear in a place independent of the base system, such as /usr/local/FG-Stable or $HOME/FG-Stable. This way also has the advantage of easily managing several FlightGear versions, even with different versions of OpenSceneGraph and/or plib, simply by altering the installation prefix. I suggest to make this directory writeable by the user so there is no need to become root for the make commands. We'll use $FG_INSTALL_DIR as a placeholder for this directory.
Another placeholder will be $FG_SRC_DIR, it stands for the absolute path to the directory which is supposed to keep the folders of the various source codes. So, in the instructions below, you have to replace these with the local paths or even export them (in every terminal you're using them) for the process:

export FG_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/FG-Stable && mkdir $FG_INSTALL_DIR
export FG_SRC_DIR=$HOME/src && mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR

Have in mind that the data is a relatively large download (GIT about 2.3 GiB (required disk space 4 GiB) / Stable about 1.5 GiB). So, to save some time, it is a good idea to fetch it while building the sources.
For some basic info on git commands for FlightGear users we have a git for laymen section.

For more/advanced cmake options and SimGear's and FlightGear's optional features see the cmake article.

Zeichen 144 icon.png Do not mix instructions for stable and next! Not even for fgdata, mixing versions will almost certainly break the installation.


plib

Stable and next:
While just installing package "libplib-dev" should work, it's recommended to build it from source.

cd $FG_SRC_DIR
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/libplib/code libplib.git
cd libplib.git
echo "1.8.6" > version
sed s/PLIB_TINY_VERSION\ \ 5/PLIB_TINY_VERSION\ \ 6/ -i src/util/ul.h
git commit --all --message "Increase tiny version to 6."
mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR/build-plib && cd $FG_SRC_DIR/build-plib
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" $FG_SRC_DIR/libplib.git
make -j$(nproc) && make install


SimGear

Stable and next:

cd $FG_SRC_DIR
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/simgear simgear.git

Stable only:

cd simgear.git
git checkout release/2017.3

Stable and next:

mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR/build-sg && cd $FG_SRC_DIR/build-sg
cmake CFLAGS="--std=c++11" -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" \
      $FG_SRC_DIR/simgear.git
make -j$(nproc) && make install


FlightGear source

Stable and next:

cd $FG_SRC_DIR
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/flightgear flightgear.git

Stable only:

cd flightgear.git
git checkout release/2017.3

Stable and next:

mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR/build-fg && cd $FG_SRC_DIR/build-fg
cmake CFLAGS="--std=c++11" -D FG_DATA_DIR:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR/fgdata" \
      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" $FG_SRC_DIR/flightgear.git
make -j$(nproc) && make install


FlightGear data

Stable only:

cd $FG_INSTALL_DIR
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2017.3/FlightGear-2017.3.1-data.tar.bz2/download -O FlightGear-2017.3.1-data.tar.bz2
tar xjf FlightGear-2017.3.1-data.tar.bz2

next only:

cd $FG_INSTALL_DIR
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgdata fgdata


Trial run and finishing process

When all the builds are done and the data download has finished it is time for a test run:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$FG_INSTALL_DIR/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$FG_INSTALL_DIR/bin/fgfs --launcher
The fgfs binary needs to find our self compiled libraries at runtime and therefore we have to tell the linker (ld) where to find them. That is what the first line here does. You might want to add this line to your $HOME/.bashrc to have this as a persistent setting (may cause problems, if one has installed more than one version of FlightGear!).
Have in mind, the $FG_INSTALL_DIR and $FG_SRC_DIR variables are available for this session only. For future use of these lines, replace them by the real paths.

To avoid the need to give the path to the fgfs command each time, you might consider to create a symlink at a place that is listed in $PATH:

ln -s $FG_INSTALL_DIR/bin/fgfs $HOME/bin/fgfs