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If you are definitely interested in coding, but not in building FlightGear from source, you may want to look into [[Nasal]] programming, which is FlightGear's built in scripting language. | If you are definitely interested in coding, but not in building FlightGear from source, you may want to look into [[Nasal]] programming, which is FlightGear's built in scripting language. | ||
This article will provide the required pointers to get you started hacking the FlightGear source code. Ideally, you already know C++, or a language very close to it, like C or Java. | |||
Also, you should preferably already have experience building programs from source code, otherwise this may seem pretty frustrating if you do this for the first time, simply because FlightGear has meanwhile become a fairly complex code base with many dependencies that need to be satisfied and build in a certain order. | |||
= Initial advice = | = Initial advice = | ||