Re: [Crrcsim-devel] Is the simulator still alive?

[Jan R. <slo...@gm...>]

Am Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:29:38 +0300 schrieb "Joonas Saraj=E4rvi" <muepsj@gma=
il.com>:

> Hello, developers :)

Hello Joonas!
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> When I quit using Windows, however, I also needed to replace the
> simulator software to something that was available on Linux.

I guess that's the main reason why people are using CRRCsim. And for me
it was the main reason to contribute to CRRCsim.
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> the settings file myself. The fact that the simulator runs perfectly
> well on a Radeon X300 with an open source video driver is very nice,
> too.

Yes, but unfortunately the NVidia (closed source) drivers still seem
to be the best choice for Linux.
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> The simulator still need some attention, though. At least there is a
> bug that crashes the simulator when I try to set up my joystick axis.

Do you have any experience with the GNU toolchain, especially GDB?
Then you could try to produce a backtrace from the point where
CRRCsim crashed. This could help us fix the bug.

Short instructions:
# make clean
# make debug
# gdb ./crrcsim
(gdb) r
[try to reproduce the bug, CRRCsim will then freeze and return control to G=
DB]
(gdb) bt
(gdb) quit

Then copy and paste the output from the "bt" command here. Or even better,
create an entry in the bug tracker:

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=3DCRRCsim.CrrcBugReport

But it's always a good idea to anounce the new bug here, because I often
forget to check the trackers for a while.

> There are some planes that don't fly well, if at all. The engine sound
> in some planes isn't very good.

It was hard to find free (not copyrighted) sound files. If you can provide
better ones I'd gladly add them to CRRCsim.

> The release tarball's build system
> isn't really flexible, though it gets the job done in many cases.

Andreas already wrote about it on the crrcsim Yahoo group: We've started
to create an autoconf script, so hopefully we can provide the standard
"configure;make;make install" build system with the next release.

> Is the simulator still being developed? When I look at the mailing
> list archive, the latest message seems to be from around April of this
> year. Have you lost interest in the project, or maybe just moved the
> discussion elsewhere? Or maybe you all are just flying? It's a nice
> hobby, anyways.

Well, speaking for myself, the amount of spare time that I can spend for
my hobbies has become very small. And during the summer I usually choose
to go flying instead of hacking some new stuff into CRRCsim...
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Kind regards,
Jan R.

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Jan Reucker
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