Compile without Installing

[llsouder]

I am trying to compile FlightGear without installing SimGear. I want to have several versions to work with while I am evaluating some things.

I use cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/test/fgtest on simgear and then the same in flightgear but I get a message about setting SIMGEAR_DIR.
I tried to set the SIMGEAR_DIR with export SIMGEAR_DIR=/home/test/fgtest but I cannot get flightgear's cmake to find simgear.

This page describes what I want to do:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Building_using_CMake

Yes the instructions are for Mac, but I don't think that should matter, should it?

[FlugHund]

Try cmake option

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-D SIMGEAR_INCLUDE_DIR=

[llsouder]

That worked!

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cmake -DSIMGEAR_INCLUDE_DIR="../fg-3.4.0/include" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="../fg-3.4.0/" .


note simgear was installed in ../fg-3.4.0 and I needed to tell cmake that simgear includes are found in ../fg-3.4.0/include .

[llsouder]

My last post was still incomplete because you also need to set the SIMGEAR_DIR for the linker. Without it, make will get to 99% but then fail on the link.

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SIMGEAR_DIR=/home/test/fglatest/ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/test/fglatest/ -DSIMGEAR_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/test/fglatest/include/ .
make
make install


I do like that fgfs is statically linked to simgear so I do not need any scripts to start it up.

[Hooray]

Please do feel free to edit the wiki article and improve it accordingly, thank you!

[llsouder]

Please do feel free to edit the wiki article and improve it accordingly, thank you!

which wiki article? the IG one or the compiling page?