FlightGear Git on Windows

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with FlightGear and Git.

This document guides you through the development version of FlightGear (Git) installation process on Windows.

Pre-installation work

Before we start, we will choose an installation directory. This can be any drive on your computer. In this document, we assume that you install FlightGear on the D:/ drive. Just replace the commands given in this document by your installation directory when using another drive or different directory root.

Create the following directories on your drive:

• FlightGear/
  • bin/
    • win32/
  • data/

Obtaining data from Git

You can use any Git software, however we advise to use msysGit. You can download it through this link. Follow the download/installation instructions that show up on your screen.

Once msysGit is installed, browse to your FlightGear/data directory and right click. Choosing the "Git Bash" option pops up a command prompt. Add the following command and press Enter.

git clone git://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata.git D:/FlightGear/data

Now msysGit will pull the entire fgdata package into your FlightGear/data directory. This can take up to a couple of hours on slow internet connections!

Getting the binary

Now we've got all the data, we need to have a binary, which contains the actual software that runs FlightGear. Go to ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32 and download the latest fgrun+fgfs-osg-win32-git.zip file that is available. Unpack the file in your FlightGear/bin/win32 directory.

Running FlightGear

Run FlightGear/bin/win32/fgrun.exe to launch the FlightGear Wizard, or run FlightGear/bin/win32/fgfs.exe by commandline.