Re: [Flightgear-devel] won't compile ... also configuration issues:openAL +- osg +- whatever

[Roy V. O. <roy...@ha...>]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:42, John Denker wrote:
> Uhhh, what has OSG got to do with it?  I don't see an OSG requirement
> mentioned anywhere in the documentation.
>
> Do I need OSG on top of plib?  Or OSG instead of plib?  Is this optional,
> or is it a new requirement?

OSG on top of plib. We still use plib for some things (the gui and joystick I 
believe). If you use CVS HEAD then OSG is required. There was recently a fork 
in CVS to separate the plib-only and the plib OSG versions. I believe that 
the plib-only fork will eventually be abandoned and/or merged with the plib 
OSG version.

>
> Suggestion (again):  Whatever the actual requirements are, they should be
> documented, and they should be enforced by the  configure  script.

Probably the most up-to-date documentation about Flightgear is located on the 
Wiki page. There's even a section about OSG:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=OpenSceneGraph

>
> Debian etch offers an  libopenscenegraph-dev  package;  that's easy enough
> to install.  But naive users would have a hard time guessing that it's
> needed.

Depends on the naiveness ;-)


-- 
Roy Vegard Ovesen