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=== Disk Space Requirements === | === Disk Space Requirements === | ||
As of April 2019, building FlightGear requires about | As of April 2019, building FlightGear requires about 12 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte GiB] of disk space. Note that this includes downloaded source code for [[SimGear]] and FlightGear, generated build files and the large [[FGData]] repository (about 6 GiB for that one). | ||
=== List of compiled programs === | === List of compiled programs === | ||
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== Disk usage and build time == | == Disk usage and build time == | ||
Keeping compiled programs, source code and data repositories requires some hard disk space: it will take something like | Keeping compiled programs, source code and data repositories requires some hard disk space: it will take something like 12 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte GiB] of space for just [[SimGear]], FlightGear and [[FGData]] (i.e., the SIMGEAR, FGFS and DATA components). | ||
With an Intel Core i7 860 CPU (2.80 GHz) purchased in 2009, compiling [[SimGear]] and FlightGear 2019.2 with option <code>-j8</code> takes about 14 minutes. If you don't have a fast machine and build using only one core, it may require several hours. | With an Intel Core i7 860 CPU (2.80 GHz) purchased in 2009, compiling [[SimGear]] and FlightGear 2019.2 with option <code>-j8</code> takes about 14 minutes. If you don't have a fast machine and build using only one core, it may require several hours. |
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