thanks fred! >Generally, people use g++ under Cygwin, or use the MS Visual Studio >with MS compiler.
i think i might be the first using cygwin/windows/.Net-Vc7 given my troubles. anyway i've tried both g++ and Vc7 and have problems either way. to Erik who suggested the problem is only visible when X11 is installed on Cygwin: how do i uninstall X11 using cygwin? thanks, john ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederic BOUVIER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Removing WeatherCM (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs.cxx) > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Orthonormalize said: > > > > > now, that said, i've spent over a WEEK trying to build flightgear. only > > > today (i pray) will i finish the task. > > > > > > here are my observations: > > > > > > 1) the autoconf/configure process is extremely fickle. in my opinion there > > > are way too many "configurations" for flightgear. the problem seems in > > > trying to support every platform "out of the box", fightgear supports no > > > platform. i know that sounds harsh but try building it on a spare > > > laptop/desktop you have hanging around that has never seen any development > > > tools before. > > > > > > -my solution: prebuild a few Lowest Common Denominator configurations > > > (say lynux,windows and mac) and then call it a day. > > > > I'm not sure what you are saying here (there is at least one of the top > > contributors that doesn't use any of those platforms). Many have built > > flightgear the first time in much less than a week. It took me about an hour > > or so on linux back about 3 years ago and mostly that was due to slow cpu > > speed. My guess is that whatever platform you are using has significant > > issues. It does get complicated, but other projects have demonstrated that > > broad multi-platform support is doable. If you can take what you've learned > > in the last week and apply it to help us support your platform better, that > > would be a win situation for all. > > >From what I understood from John's previous post, he is trying to build > FG on Windows using both Cygwin for the environment and MSVC7 for > the compiler. To my knowledge, he is the first ever, so it can be normal > he is having problems in this unknown territory. > > Generally, people use g++ under Cygwin, or use the MS Visual Studio > with MS compiler. > > -Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
