Tau Simulation installation on OSX (Mavericks but should work on others)

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I recently went through an instal of this great simulation software that works with Tau labs' version of GCS. This helps you fake telemetry and potentially fake flying with a UDP wrapper to GCS.

; First get yourself a copy of Tau labs source code
;: git clone git@github.com:TauLabs/TauLabs.git
; cd TauLabs
; Next is to install gcc48
;: First make sure you have xcode installed on your machine. This may take a while. You'll have to look for it in the appstore.
;: For gcc48 you need to have brew (many posts about installing brew)
;: type this in the cmd line: brew tap homebrew/versions
;: brew install gcc48
; Next you need to have qmake installed
;: run: make qt_sdk_install
;: When it asks you for a location give it : /absolute/path/to/TauLabs/tools/Qt5.2.1
;: Then follow the instructions. You want to check that you have Qt5.2.1 inside tools and that folder is populated with other directories and files (5.2.1 is one of them)
; Make the simulator :)
;: type this from inside TauLabs on cmd line:
;: make sim_osx_revolution_clean && make sim_osx_revolution
:: let it run if all goes well it should finish after a few minutes
; Run the simulator
;: type: ./build/sim_osx_revolution/sim_osx_revolution.elf

Next you need to launch the TauLabs GCS
; Get it [https://github.com/TauLabs/TauLabs/releases here]
; Go into preferences and choose IP Network Telmetry Settings
;: put the hostname as localhost
;: port 9000
;: TCP Connection

; On the lower right side where it says connections, disconnect any existing connections, select TCP:localhost and connect. 
;: You should see RX light up and then under the lower tabs present you should see movement under Scopes.

Have fun and let us know how we can help.