Hi. I recently joined a project group that is building an autonomous drone. I will likely be one of the team members that uses Mission Planner. I have some basic programming experience (C, java, Arduino) and some basic RC airplane and quadcopter flying experience. However, I have no experience with GCS and autonomous flight. I posted this same question topic on another forum but have not received any responses yet... Although we will have the physical drone system to tie into Mission Planner, I would like to start gaining some experience using Mission Planner by using it in SITL.
I have been using this webpage to try to install the SITL so I can get a feel for how to use Mission Planner:
http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/sitl-native-on-windows/
I selected the latest required packages, but I am having problems still. I am following the instructions on that webpage to the letter, but am getting errors when I try to build either the ArduCopter or ArduPlane.
It seems like certain files can't be found during the build process. I am reading up more on using CLI in Linux to better understand some things.
When I have more time this weekend, I can post up some screenshots of the exact error text in the CLI that I get each time I try to build either the ArduCopter or ArduPlane.
Also for reference: My PC is running Wndows 8.1 64-bit
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