Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-Swift (VATSIM) connection

[Lars T. <de...@lt...>]

And regarding the libs needed one of the swift developer wrote:

 

- “libevent is needed to drive the low level dbus library. Generally dbus
suggests to use high level bindings like Qt or Glib. But pulling those into
the XPlane process was too much. If FG is already using Qt in the sim
process you could easily use QtDBus instead.

- dbus is not a hard requirement. The connection can be implemented in many
different ways.”

“

 

My idea was to have a basic working connection available first and do some
more improvements and possibly a change from dbus to something else later
on.

 

Von: James Turner <ja...@fl...> 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. März 2019 13:18
An: FlightGear developers discussions
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Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-Swift (VATSIM) connection

 

 





On 6 Mar 2019, at 12:04, Lars Toenning <de...@lt...
<mailto:de...@lt...> > wrote:

 

@James: Dbus is used for connection to swift (perhaps used differently than
normal but this is the same architecture they are using for their Xplane
plugin). I already added the libevent and dbus to FG cmake and for me it
worked well (tested on win only so far). The swift team has included the
header files and precompiled libs/dlls for dbus. Maybe this would be a
possibility?

 

 

Yes that sounds good indeed. DBus is a bit of funny one for deployment
because of the different components it can potentially use (and services in
the user environment), hopefully we avoid most of those pitfalls.

 

Kind regards,

James