Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling SimGear on Cygwin

[Bill G. <bi...@be...>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fli...@li... 
> [mailto:fli...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of Romeo Ahohe
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:38 PM
> To: fli...@li...
> Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling SimGear on Cygwin
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was able to compile and install plib and openal using Cygwin.
> However, the configure script for SimGear is unable to find 
> the openal installation. The following error message is 
> produced when i run that
> script:
> 
> checking for library containing alGenBuffers... no checking 
> for library containing alutInit... no
> 
> You *must* have the openal library installed on your system 
> to build SimGear!
> 
> Please see README.OpenAL for more details.
> 
> configure aborted
> 
> There was another problem too: there is no README.OpenAL in 
> the directory. Instead, I only see README, README.MSVC, and 
> README.zlib
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Romeo


Let us know if you solve this. I'm interested in compiling the latest code
myself, I just don't have the time to work through all of the little
'opportunities to learn'. I'd love to see a complete, current set of
instructions.

Bill