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Welcome to the GiPSy project aimed at creating a multiplatform logbook of paraglider or hangglider flights. In order to compile the code, you will need:

• gecko SDK (on Linux platforms the package is usually called xulrunner-dev)
• ragel
• libusb (on Linux/MacOS platforms)
• optionally (to build city database): python with sqlite3 modules
• optionally (if you have the private key to generate g-records, which you don’t have): cryptopp

To build the library:

• Enter the xpc directory
• Update Makefile.[your_platform] to match your paths to gecko sdk. You will have to try to add the correct paths to correct header files, every installation of gecko SDK is different
• Edit rules.makefile – comment out the definition of -DHAVE_CRYPTO
• type ‘make’ – this should produce files IGPSScanner.xpt and gipsy.so (or gipsy.dll)
• copy these files into the directory extension/platform/[your platform]/components/

On Windows this is slightly more tricky:

• Use Visual Studio Express 2008
• I have forgotten the trick to compile correctly the crypto++ libraries – as far as I remember the static library must be compiled in dynamic Multi/threaded mode
• Undefine HAVE_CRYPTO to compile it
• Create the igcparser.inc and prefparser.cpp using ragel manually
• Install Windows driver kit , add include and library paths to the project. I am using ATL for some conversion routines and it is included in the WDK

To install this development environment into your firefox:

• Go to ~/.mozilla/firefox/[name_of_profile]/extensions
• create a file named [email protected]
• the content of the file should be a full path to the extension/ directory
• restart firefox
• if upon starting GiPSy you see a complaint about non-loaded library, remove the file xpti.dat and compreg.dat from the firefox profile directory

Libcrypto, SELinux compatibility (if you have the private key):

• Instal the libcrypto++.a library; the library must be compiled with -fPIC (add -fPIC to CXXFLAGS in GNUmakefile) on both x86 and x86_64 platforms. There are different reasons though:
  • On the x86_64 platform gipsy.so fails to link if libcrypto.a is not compiled with -fPIC
  • On the x86 platform gipsy.so will link but fails to work on SELinux platforms (e.g. Fedora 13). Unfortunately, linking it with -fPIC will fail with error – you have to disable SSE too (add -DCRYPTOPP_DISABLE_SSE2 to the CXXFLAGS in GNUmakefile)