OverSim Installation Instructions

These instructions show you how to install OverSim for Linux, but compiling and running OverSim for Windows or Mac OS X works similar.

1. Requirements for OMNeT++ and OverSim:
   • ​Tcl/Tk 8.4 + optionally BLT
   • ​libgmp

If you have a debian-based distribution like Ubuntu you can install these packages with:

  sudo apt-get install tk8.4-dev libgmp3-dev blt-dev

2. Download ​OMNeT++ 4.0 from ​http://www.omnetpp.org/ after reading the ​License

3. Create a new directory (in the following we assume you want to install OMNeT++ and OverSim to ~/sim/) and extract OMNeT++:

     mkdir ~/sim
     cd ~/sim
     tar xzf /tmp/omnetpp-4.0-src.tgz
   

4. Add the following lines to your .bashrc or .profile:

     export PATH=~/sim/omnetpp-4.0/bin:$PATH
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/sim/omnetpp-4.0/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   

5. Compile OMNeT++.

     cd ~/sim/omnetpp-4.0
     ./configure
     make
   

6. Download the patched version of the INET framework INET-OverSim-20090317.tgz and extract in next to your OMNeT++ installation:

     cd ~/sim
     tar xzf /tmp/INET-OverSim-20090317.tgz
   

7. Compile the INET framework:

     make
   

8. Download the latest OverSim snapshot OverSim-20090320.tgz and extract in next to your OMNeT++ installation:

     cd ~/sim
     tar xzf /tmp/OverSim-20090320.tgz
   

9. Compile OverSim:

     cd ~/sim/OverSim-20090320
     make
   

Congratulations - now you should have a working OverSim installation! For instructions how to use OverSim look at OverSimUsage.

If you want to install obsolete OverSim releases visit the OldOverSimInstall page.