Hi all,

<quote Ed Baker>
If Flightgear plans to draw a large audience (and I think it is worthy
of it), the Flightgear community HAS TO REALIZE that they MUST appeal
to the MS-Windows community.
<end quote>

<quote Erik Hofman>
It's time  there are more active windows developers, that's what's needed!
<end quote>

OK.  I use Win32 and I have Cygwin.  How do I compile FGFS in this
environment?  Is there a cygwin compile guide?

For the technical minded take a deep breath, read on and please offer
some help so that, hopefuly, other eager Windows dev guys can help
bridge this gap.  I have Cygwin with all of the standard base
packages.  I also have the following packages:

cvs 1.11.17-1
make 3.80-1
gcc-core 3.4.4-1
gcc-g++ 3.4.4-1
gcc-mingw-core 20050522-1
gcc-mingw-g++ 20050522-1
opengl 1.1.0-7
win32api 3.3-1
zlib 1.2.3-1

Then, using the links from the FlightGear web site, I have:

Downlaoded and extracted the FGFS 0.9.8 release source to ~/FlightGear-0.9.8

Downloaded fgfs-base-0.9.8.tar.bz2.

Downloaded and extracted simgear 0.3.8 to ~/SimGear-0.3.8

Downloaded and extracted plib 1.8.4 to ~/plib-1.8.4.

Downloaded and extracted freeglut 2.4.0 to ~/freeglut-2.4.0

Used the cvs commands from www.openal.org to retrieve the openal
source.to ~/openal

Now a description of what seems to work and of my problems.

plib.  I ran ./configure and make install.  This reported no errors.

FreeGlut.  ./configure seems to work but when I run make I get an
error message (if anybody volunteers to help then I can send them the
output of configure and the output of make).

OpenAL.  According to the docs on the web page I need to install the
Win32 version of OpenAL.  I can see a directory that seems to have
some files for MSVC but I can't see any inherent support for compiling
under Cygwin.

All other problems stem from my OpenAL problem.  For example, when I
run ./configure in the SimGear directory I get an error message about
OpenAL not installed.  I won't even attempt to compile FGFS until I've
solved the OpenAL, FreeGlut and SimGear issues.

Any Win32-Cygwin help will be very gratefully received and please feel
free to shout at me if this thread should be on the developers' forum
rather than on the users' forum.

Kevin.

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