Installing JSBSim

/ C/C++

These are my notes on setting up JSBSim. I’m using JSBSim version 1.2.3 and Windows 11, but I’ll probably update this for Linux later.

Source code

Download and unzip https://github.com/JSBSim-Team/jsbsim/archive/refs/tags/v1.2.3.zip so that there’s a C:\jsbsim-1.2.3 folder.

Prerequisites

  • Windows 11
  • Visual Studio 2022 with C++ support
  • cmake v3

Build and install

Open a command prompt and run the following commands:

cd C:\jsbsim-1.2.3
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DUSE_SIMGEAR=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --install . --config Release

Notes

If there are warnings about Cython and/or CxxTest, these can be ignored (unless you want to build the Python module or want to run the test suite). For my purposes, I’m just using the JSBSim API in C++ apps. I’m setting an environment variable JSBSIMDIR to C:\jsbsim-1.2.3\install and using it in my CMakeLists.txt file.