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This is an 'unofficial' FlightGear site - just sharing 'personal' experiences ;=))

This section of my web is dedicated to FlightGear - an open-source, multi-platform flight simulator - the best there is! Here I share my 'personal' notes, comments, 'fixes', on building, and running this 'beautiful' set of 'applications', using Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6, 7.1 and 8, in XP SP2, in the hope it helps others enjoy this 'powerful' flight simulator. Have FUN ... ;=))

Choice of current pages -
2006-06-24 - fgrun - Building 'FlightGear Launch Control' - using MSVC8 
2006-06-06 - FlightGear 0.9.10 - using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (MSVC8)
FGLive - A great new CD-ROM - Just download the ISO, burn a CD, and you're flying, maybe ;=))
2006-04-15 - FlightGear 0.9.10 - using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (MSVC6), and FAILED ;=((!
2006-04-09 - FlightGear 0.9.10 - using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (MSVC8)
2006-03-24 - FlightGear 0.9.10 - using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (MSVC7.1)
2005-11-17 - FlightGear 0.9.9 - using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (MSVC7.1).
LINK ERROR - This is one of the MOST COMMON link errors when linking FlightGear ...
2005-11-13 - FlightGear 0.9.9-pre3 - using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (MSVC7.1).
Update 2
- A late October, 2005, CVS update, and build, using MSVC7.1 - Some of the story ;=))
Update 1
- An early October, 2005, CVS download, and build, using MSVC7 - The whole story ;-))
Quick Start
- Work in progress ... just to try flying ...
MSVC7 - Building FlightGear, and its dependants, using Microsoft Visual C/C++ .NET 2003 (V.7.1) ...
UFO - Some images, captured while 'flying' the 'ufo' aircraft ... and missing Australian icons ...
ATLAS - Menu to Building and running, Atlas, Map, with MSVC6 and MSVC7 ...
Atlas 3 - Building, and Running Atlas, Map, using MSVC7 ...
Atlas 2 - Running FG->Atlas, a 'moving map', in single machine, running Windows XP ...
Atlas 1 - Building Atlas, and its dependants, using Microsoft Visual C/C++ Version 6 ...
MSVC6 - Building FlightGear, and its dependant sources, using Microsoft Visual C/C++ Version 6 ...
OTHERS - TerraGear, fgrun, fgsd, ... to be done, maybe ...
Sydney - A comparative view ...
A Freeze - An approach to finding someone else's 'freeze' problem, shows lots of the console outputs ...
cygwin - My first impression of cygwin environment - a FREE *nix simulation world ...

A few 'pilot' jokes ... just for fun ... some java flying planes ... Concorde's last moments ...

NOTE: The following are now OLDER versions, and may NOT apply to the current version! Check out the latest updates above. The zips, MSVC-7 and MSVC-6, contain all the (*.sln,*.vcproj) and (*.dsw, *.dsp) respectively. You should try those with the current source first ... they could be more up-to-date ... mine will only work if you have the same 'relative' directory structure as I have chosen, and even then, some may need some 'fixes' due to changes in the source ... my 'release' runtime, my version 099, nothing to do with the 0.9.9 above ... is more like 0.9.8plus ;=)) is here, the debug here, for 'testing' ...

One day I may build, say a fgfs.sln/dsw that loads ALL projects in one hit ... then the README could say - download each of the SOURCES, put them in 'this' folder structure, load the fgfs 'solution', and build ... it could even include a runtime command line, 'suited' to the structure ... but that is wishful thinking, at this time ;=((

Hopefully, more to come ...;=))

Geoff R. McLane
Date: March, 2006

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My email address is spoken as geoff air, one word, at the domain, hotmail dot com ... that is, geoff air at hotmail dot com ... I try to answer all emails, but please do not expect a 'quick' answer, or solution ... an 'excuse' my 'crazy' web pages, tactics, I am not very good at it ;=))

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Previous version - Feb 2005 - Build files MSVC-7 - my release 098 is here, the 'debug' here ... just for 'fun' ... and an abandoned Perl project, am2dsp ...

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