Building FlightGear - Linux

Requirements

• C++ compiler
• OpenGL support
• OpenSceneGraph (cvs HEAD branch)

Dependencies

• pthreads
• (Free)GLUT or SDL
• PLIB (until version 0.9.10 release sources, PLIB CVS branch)
• OpenAL and ALUT
• SimGear

Instructions

• MSYS
• MinGW/cross-compiler
• CodeBlocks IDE
• OpenSUSE 10.1
• MSVC7 *.Net
• MSVC8 aka Visual 2005

Free/Open Source

• gcc - the GNU compiler (collection)
• make - GNU make
• autools - autoconf, automake, libtool & co
• distcc - distributed (fast!) compilations for any network
• gprof - the GNU profiler
• ccache - compiler cache, pre-compiled objects for gcc
• doxygen - source code documenting
• gdb - the GNU project debugger
• DDD - Data Display Debugger
• CVS - Concurrent Versioning System
  • http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
  • http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_toc.html
  • http://www.wincvs.org/
• SVN
  • http://www.subversion.org

Free/Proprietary

• Intel VTune (free Win32/Linux versions available for non-commercial use:requires an INTEL CPU!)
• AMD's Developer Tools (CodeAnalyst, available for free for Win32/Linux )