[Marble-devel] Review Request: First version of flightgear position provider plugin

[Ralf Habacker]

> On May 4, 2012, 1:28 p.m., Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> > I haven't looked into it, but wouldn't it be possible to use GPSd for parsing the NMEA data? Given that we have a GPSd plugin already, reusing GPSd could reduce dependencies and maintainance effort on our side. Perhaps it's possible to tell GPSd to listen on a certain port?
> 
> Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>     Maybe using something like
>     extern int gps_unpack(char *, struct gps_data_t *);
>     from gps.h es enough even.
>     
>     I'm not sure how well gpsd works on Windows though (which I understand is Ralfs main objective), so supporting both libraries might be a good alternative.
>

gpsd is no choice on windows, on the gpsd website there is stated: No, we don't support Windows — get a better operating system. 


- Ralf


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On May 3, 2012, 9:57 a.m., Ralf Habacker wrote:
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> (Updated May 3, 2012, 9:57 a.m.)
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> Review request for Marble.
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> Description
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> When selecting the plugin in the current location panel it starts listen on an udp socket (localhost:5500), which is the default port flightgear uses for exporting map display information. The data send to this port is build as gps data in nmea format.
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> The plugin depends on the mnea library http://nmea.sourceforge.net/. The presence of this library is checked on configure time. Building of this plugins only happens when this library is available. 
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> On windows the nmea library has been added to the KDE on windows build enviroment. 
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> This addresses bug 298785.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298785
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> Diffs
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>   Findnmealib.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   src/plugins/positionprovider/CMakeLists.txt bebe774 
>   src/plugins/positionprovider/flightgear/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   src/plugins/positionprovider/flightgear/FlightGearPositionProviderPlugin.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/plugins/positionprovider/flightgear/FlightGearPositionProviderPlugin.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104736/diff/
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> Testing
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> succesfull build and tested on windows 7 with msvc 2010 in debug and release mode
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> Thanks,
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> Ralf Habacker
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