FGX

FGx

Developed by	Yves Sablonier, Pete Morgan, Geoff McLane
Initial release	2.2.0
Latest release	2.8.0
Written in	C++ (Qt)
OS	Mac, Windows, various Linux distributions
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FGx is an Open Source graphical launcher application for FlightGear Flight Simulator that is built using Qt from Nokia. Development began in the first quarter of 2011 with the purpose of creating a fast and easy to use tool to manage your FlightGear preferences and to start the flight simulator application.

While initial development targeted the Apple Mac architecture, the Qt development environment allows for cross-platform compatibility between Windows, Mac OS and various Linux distributions.

Getting FGx

FGx source code is available at Gitorious or at FGx Origin. Precompiled binaries are available at http://downloads.fgx.ch

Building

Qt creator

1. Install Qt4 SDK
2. Use Qt Creator to open the project file fgx/src/fgx.pro
3. In Qt Creator, use Build->Build All to build the project.

In the command line

Alternatively, you can build FGx using the command line on Unix systems.

Before building, you must install the Qt headers, the QMake tool, git and g++ using the your system's packaging tool. On Debian-based systems, this is:

apt-get install libqt4-dev qt4-qmake git g++

Then, execute the following commands:

git clone git://gitorious.org/fgx/fgx.git  # Download the source code
cd fgx/src/                                # Change into the source dictionary
qmake                                      # Create the makefile
make                                       # Compile the source
make install                               # Optional, must be run as root

Supported Systems

Note that FGx has been tested using the prerequisites listed below and may actually work with different OSes and versions. Feel free to update this list if you have additional information.

• Mac OSX
• Fedora
• Ubuntu/Xubuntu and other debian distributions
• Gentoo
• Windows XP/Vista/7

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