Running the latest release on Linux fails with a glib error

[stronnag]

Running the latest release on Linux fails with a glib error

[stronnag]

I even remembered to build on Ubuntu!

[stronnag]

OK, I'll build it on Debian (vice Arch) and replace the Linux binaries.

[skorokithakis]

Would linking statically be less problematic, perhaps?

[stronnag]

It is staticallly linked; however you can't escape a dynamic glibc dependency. Building on Debian Stable has an much older glibc, so it should more anywhere.

[stronnag]

OK, I've replaced the linux archives in the 0.8.0 release with files built in Ubuntu 20.04. Can you test that otx2kml please

[skorokithakis]

Works great, thanks! OTX logs are a bit sparse, as you said, but eh. Would you happen to know how I can get Google Earth to interpolate between two successive points? I fly over the same spot a lot and it's just a cloud of dots currently.

[stronnag]

Not sure what you mean. If you're trying to follow the track, the easiest way is to use the time slider; move the right knob to the left, then use either the step right control (right end of the slider) or the animation (clock icon) to step through the scenario. There's animation speed setting via the spanner icon.

[skorokithakis]

Ah, I thought I saw a screenshot where there was a "wall" under the points that connected them, maybe that wasn't Google Earth. Thank you!

[stronnag]

Wilko has used another tool to do that. You can build a curtain (walls are so 2020) using GE styling.

• Select the Flight Modes folder
• Properties => Style, Colour => Share Style
• Altitude => Extend to ground, OK

Unfortunately, you then override the other styling and lose the Flight Mode colour coding. I guess I could add an "Extend" option ...

[wilco1967]

That 'wall' (or curtain... whatever.... ;-) was in google earth.
Is was generated from the OTx logfile, opened from OpenTx companion log viewer, which in turn opens Google earth (you need to have the google earth executable defined in OTx companion settings to do that). Once shown In earth, under properties of the logfile, there is an option to 'extend to ground level', which creates the wall.

[stronnag]

Or you can try this with --extrude and see if that works for you. (Linux 64bit binaries)

bbl2kml-0.8.1-x1.tar.gz

[skorokithakis]

I'll try those, thank you! This issue can be closed, BTW.

[stronnag]

Updated with better styling and proper style merging, so you can have f/s icon and extrude lines.

Not sure if I don't like this better than without the lines, OTOH, can always use BBL2KML_OPTS=--extrude

bbl2kml-0.8.1-x2-win32.zip
bbl2kml-0.8.1-x2-macos.zip
bbl2kml-0.8.1-x2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
bbl2kml-0.8.1-x2-linux-ia32.tar.gz

Damn, I now know more about KML than I ever thought I'd need to.

[stronnag]

^^^ Extrude enabled binaries for Mac, Linux, Win

[skorokithakis]

This is happening again with 0.9.6:

19:29:56 $ flightlog2kml --help
flightlog2kml: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by flightlog2kml)

[stronnag]

Damn it, must have missed the completely static flag .... let me try again

[stronnag]

The build script (and uploaded build) should be fixed now ...

[skorokithakis]

That worked, thanks for the quick response!