/flightsim

Primary LanguageC++

Flight Simulator with Tiva Launchpad Joystick

Screenshot of the flight simulator in operator

Dependencies

C++ Side

  1. Boost:
    • Specifically boost::asio, for serial port stuffs
    • Download: http://www.boost.org/
    • Installation:
      • Boost is a header-only library... mostly. There are some libraries that must be built separately.
      • Asio depends on only a few of these libraries that require building.
      • Full instructions here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/doc/html/boost_asio/using.html
      • Building:
        • Go into the boost distribution folder (looks something like boost_1_59_0/).
        • Run bootstrap.sh.
        • Run b2 install --prefix=%BOOST_PATH% where %BOOST_PATH% is the directory where you want Boost to be installed
        • If Windows, identify the compiler that you're using. For instance, Code::Blocks uses gcc 4.7.1 (tdm-1). See: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#identify-your-toolset
        • Run something like b2 --with-system --with-thread --with-date_time --with-regex --with-serialization --build-type=complete toolset=gcc-4.7.1, except replace gcc-4.7.1 with your version of the compiler. If this particular gcc.exe appears first in your %PATH% environmental variable, you don't really need to specify version (i.e. toolset=gcc would suffice), but it can't hurt to be specific.
        • Wait. Hopefully everything should complete without any errors.
        • After completion, you should find in %BOOST_PATH% an include and a lib folder.
    • Compiling (Code::Blocks):
      • Locate includes: Build options -> Search directories -> Compiler: Add %BOOST_PATH%/include/boost-1_59 or something like that. There should be a boost folder in here.
      • Locate libraries: Build options -> Search directories -> Linker: Add %BOOST_PATH%/lib. There should be a bunch of .a files in this directory.
      • Link libraries: Build options -> Linker settings -> Add libboost_system-mgw47-mt-1_59 and any other libraries that are needed. (Names might be something simpler, like boost_system. They need to match the filenames.) The order is important: Libs must come before any libs that they depend on.
        • In Windows, you also have to link wsock32 for asio to work.
      • Should be more or less the same with other IDEs.
      • With command line/makefile:
        • -I[path] for include directories
        • -L[path] for library directories
        • -l[name] for linking specific libraries
  2. GLUT:
    • OpenGL Utility Toolkit, for system-level I/O and rendering graphics
    • FreeGLUT offers the same functionality as GLUT. Might be better to install FreeGLUT if you don't already have GLUT.
    • Download: http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/index.php#download
    • Installation:
      • A pain in Windows because you can't use just make to build everything.
      • Full instructions here: http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Using_FreeGlut_with_Code::Blocks
      • A method for CodeBlocks: (Following the instructions in README.cmake)
        • Go into the freeglut distribution folder (looks something like freeglut-3.0.0).
        • Download and install cmake: https://cmake.org/download/
        • Run cmake-gui.exe.
        • In the "Where is the source code" box, put the root directory of your freeglut source (so that's /freeglut, not /freeglut/src).
        • In the "Where to build the binaries" box, put the directory where you want freeglut to be installed.
        • Hit Configure and specify the generator for the project (e.g. "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles"). Wait for it to finish.
        • Hit Generate and wait for it to finish.
        • If you chose Code::Blocks, there should be a .cbp file in the target directory now. Open that with CodeBlocks and build everything. Wait for it to finish.
        • There should now be a couple of .a files in the lib folder and a .dll file in the bin folder.
        • Copy the .dll to C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW. Should be named something like freeglut.dll. Probably don't even need this because I think we're going to link statically. Oh well, can't hurt.
        • Copy the .a files to C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\lib. Should be named something like libfreeglut.a and libfreeglut.dll.a.
        • Copy the include folder from the distribution folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\include. There should be some .h files that go inside a GL folder.
    • Compiling (Code::Blocks):
      • Include directories: We put the includes in Code::Block's default include path, so we don't need to do anything.
      • Library directories: We put the libraries in Code::Block's default library search path, so we don't need to do anything.
      • Link libraries: If Windows, link: freeglut, opengl32, glu32, winmm, gdi32.
  3. GLEW:
    • OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library, for cross-platform C++ extension loading
    • Download: http://glew.sourceforge.net/
    • Installation:
      • The Makefile doesn't work in Windows, so try this super hacky solution: https://bruceoutdoors.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/glew-for-mingw-in-windows/
      • cd to the distribution directory (should look something like glew-1.13.0) and execute these, line by line:
        • mkdir lib
        • gcc -DGLEW_NO_GLU -O2 -Wall -W -Iinclude -DGLEW_BUILD -o src/glew.o -c src/glew.c
        • gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libglew32.dll -Wl,--out-implib,lib/libglew32.dll.a -o lib/glew32.dll src/glew.o -L/mingw/lib -lglu32 -lopengl32 -lgdi32 -luser32 -lkernel32
        • ar cr lib/libglew32.a src/glew.o
        • gcc -DGLEW_NO_GLU -DGLEW_MX -O2 -Wall -W -Iinclude -DGLEW_BUILD -o src/glew.mx.o -c src/glew.c
        • gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libglew32mx.dll -Wl,--out-implib,lib/libglew32mx.dll.a -o lib/glew32mx.dll src/glew.mx.o -L/mingw/lib -lglu32 -lopengl32 -lgdi32 -luser32 -lkernel32
        • ar cr lib/libglew32mx.a src/glew.mx.o
      • There should now be .a and .dll files in the lib folder.
    • Compiling (Code::Blocks):
      • Include directories: %GLEW_PATH%/include
      • Library directories: %GLEW_PATH%/lib
      • Link libraries: Link libglew32
  4. SFML 2.3.2:

Launchpad Side

  1. Energia 16:
  2. Orbit Booster Pack:
    • For accelerometer and other stuff
    • Installation: Extract contents of zip file into %ENERGIA_PATH%/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/lm4f/libraries/OrbitBoosterPack.

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