Some problems of building Virtual AGC Back

Virtual AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) is used for simulating the real AGC, the DSKY of the real Apollo Guidance System. For personal interest, I have decided to build this project (another one with translation into traditional chinese), and know more about Apollo's plan. Here, I will write down some problems of the process with a documenting way.

Here, I just use a Ubuntu 14.04 OS system to build:

1. Download a development tarball firstly: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Downloads/

   Here I would like to build with yaAGC-dev-20100220.tar.bz2

2. Then, the following step should be unpacking:

    $ tar --bzip2 -xf yaAGC-dev-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
   

3. After, building the project with enter the directory, yaAGC:

   $ cd yaAGC
   $ make
   

   Notice that, you should not run configure and make install

   • Problems: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses

   • Solutions:

     $ sudo apt-get install libcurses-ocaml-dev
     

     
     

   • Problems: fatal error: wx/wx.h: No such file or directory

   • Solutions:

     $ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev
     

4. To match the default setup:

    $ mv yaAGC/VirtualAGC/temp/lVirtualAGC ~/VirtualAGC
   

5. After installation, we can run it by executing files of ~/VirtualAGC/bin

$ ~/VirtualAGC/bin/VirtualAGC