This repository contains the code for the UniFly adapter plugin for XPlane compatibility with the UniFly app. This open source UniFly-XPLM.xpl binary interfaces with the closed source UniFly App over TCP, implementing in the simulator various commands to spawn, despawn and reposition aircraft, using the XPMP2 library. This portion of the codebase is heavily based upon XPilot's XPLM plugin and therefore has been open sourced under GPL-3.0 in order to comply with licensing. The rest of the codebase is a seperate system independently developed in a different programming language.
The macos build artefact is a universal binary with both arm64 & x86_64 architectures. We compile seperately under the two architectures and lipo them together afterwards. Therefore all dependencies must be available in both architectures. Good way to achieve this is to install homebrew twice, normal and rosetta, install protobuf and cmake on both homebrew installs, then build:
arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/cmake -B build_x86_64 -S . -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local
arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/cmake --build build_x86_64
arch -arm64 cmake -B build_arm64 -S . -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/homebrew
arch -arm64 cmake --build build_arm64
lipo -create build_x86_64/UniFly-XPLM.xpl build_arm64/UniFly-XPLM.xpl -output UniFly-XPLM.xpl
- Ensure that the toolchain is MSVC, so I had to take Clang out of my PATH variable
- Uses (vcpkg)[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-started?pivots=shell-powershell] to install the protobuf library
mkdir build
cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --preset=default
cmake --build build