On 2/13/07, Bill Galbraith wrote:
Okay, since I didn't make it happen under CygWin, now I'm trying to
compile FlightGear on a Debian Etch system. I can't get past the PLIB step.
It tells me that it can't find a working GL library (like GL or MesaGL).
I've tried installing every package except the one that works, obviously.
Can someone tell me what package that is?
Hi Bill,
First, make sure you've installed the "-devel" versions of all the required
packages ... such as xlibmesa-gl-dev (and not just xlibmesa-gl).
Second, make sure you have installed and working accelerated video drivers
for your hardware. I have had good luck with nvidia hardware under linux.
I never managed to get an ATI card running under FC6 with their proprietary
drivers the one day I put into it. The open-source/default xorg drivers for
ATI cards don't seem capable enough to run FlightGear. The open-source
nvidia drivers don't do accelerated 3d at all.
Third, if you install mesa or x11 packages or upgrade any of these packages,
you will almost certainly need to reinstall the nvidia drivers over top of
any of the default libs that might get snuck back on your system and
overwrite the nvidia versions (assuming an nvidia card, probably the same
story with ATI.)
Forthly, if you still have problems, take a very close look at the
config.log file that is generated. This will show you what program is
compiled for each config check, and will show you the compiler command and
result (in case of a compile time issue) and will show the output of running
the test program (in case of a runtime issue.) This will shed a lot of
light on exactly what the problem is.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
http://www.flightgear.org
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