Talk:Building FlightGear - Cross Compiling: Difference between revisions

: I do agree, I have also seen optional dependencies being "defaulted" to "yes" for the sake of simplicity - while ffmpeg isn't currently needed by SG/FG, a few FG devs (especially those doing UAV stuff) have been contemplating to support ffmpeg-based video streaming in FG at some point (see [[Canvas_Development#Placement.2FElement_for_Streaming:_Computer_Vision|supporting streaming in FG]] for details/references), so I guess it would be better to identify such osg/mxe issues (I think some osg examples require ffmpeg), and make the corresponding dependency optional by adding proper dependency resolution, e.g. by using the corresponding OSG magic to detect such dependencies (osg-config, or even just cmake configuration flags). I do however agree that it makes sense to first get a basic build working, and only look at all the other optional stuff later on - we will need some kind of solution to deal with those anyway (think fgcom, profiler, osgEarth, HLA/RTI etc).--[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 13:49, 24 May 2015 (EDT)