The Platooning Extension for Veins.
Plexe currently works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows as well, although the latest option is not recommended. On Linux you will have the most efficient working environment for Plexe. Downloading and building Plexe will be basically automatic, and you will have free tools available for debugging your code. On Mac OS X, the situation is very similar to Linux, but you might need to install Xcode, which is undesirable, but besides that everything will work as on Linux. On Windows instead, building Plexe still requires manual steps (such as downloading external libraries), which is highly inefficient. If you are working on a Windows environment, or if you simply want to quickly try out Plexe, you might want to check out Instant Plexe in the download section.
For Linux and Mac OS X be sure to have git installed on the system to obtain Plexe source code.
For Windows, this is not required as git is included in the Mingw terminal which ships with OMNeT++ source code.
Download OMNeT++ source code and extract it either in ~/src/ (Linux or Mac OS X) or in C:\Users\<user>\src (Windows).
In your terminal (either system terminal in Linux/Mac OS X or Mingw inside the OMNeT++ source folder in Windows), cd into ~/src or /c/Users/<user>/src and obtain Plexe source code by typing
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2 git clone https://github.com/michele-segata/plexe-veins.git
git clone https://github.com/michele-segata/plexe-sumo.git
Install build tools and required libraries:
1 sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex zlib1g-dev tk8.5-dev openjdk-6-jre autoconf libtool libproj-dev libgdal-dev libfox-1.6-dev libxerces-c-dev r-base cmake
Add OMNeT++ folder to your PATH in your .bashrc, .zshrc, .profile, or equivalent.
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source ~/.bashrc
Build OMNeT++ as explained in the official documentation:
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./configure
make -j <number of cores of your PC>
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git checkout plexe-2.1
./configure
make -j <number of cores of your PC> MODE=release
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git checkout plexe-2.1
mkdir build-release
cd build-release
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j <number of cores of your PC>
Finally, add the Plexe-SUMO bin folder to your PATH
1 echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/src/plexe-sumo/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
First, download the package for processing OMNeT++ result files
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wget http://plexe.car2x.org/download/omnetpp_0.7-1.tar.gz
Start R by typing R in your terminal.
In the R console type
1 install.packages(c('ggplot2', 'reshape2', 'data.table'))
Choose a mirror and, if asked, reply YES when asked whether libraries should be installed in a local folder.
Finally install the OMNeT++ result files package by typing
1 install.packages("omnetpp_0.7-1.tar.gz", repos=NULL)
On Mac OS X you will need to install MacPorts, which in turn MIGHT require you to install Xcode. It looks like you can install MacPorts without the full Xcode software, but I never tried. Feel free to send me feedbacks. Then to install the required tools type
1 sudo port install bison flex zlib tk autoconf libtool proj gdal fox xercesc R wget cmake
See Linux instructions
After the upgrade from version 4 to version 5, the location of headers and library files has changed.
If you perform a MacPorts upgrade which updates the library, cmake will fail to locate it.
To avoid this issue, you can force MacPorts to re-install the old version.
To revert the library to a working version do the following:
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git clone --single-branch https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git
cd macports-ports/gis/proj
git checkout cec46104fb416095b0ca72f7d0c4fed6d04c714a
sudo port install
This will install Proj version 4.9.3 and SUMO will correctly locate the library.
If you are having problems in building SUMO, check that you installed the full XCode version.
Although you can install MacPorts without the complete XCode, it seems that you will have problems building it if you don’t do so.
In addition, check wether the MacPorts path in your PATH variable comes before the system path.
In case you don’t find the MacPorts path in your .profile file, MacPorts might have added /opt/local/bin to the /etc/paths file.
If this is the case, move the MacPorts path at the top of the list and restart your terminal.
If the SUMO GUI stopped working after a MacPorts upgrade, it might be due to an update to the FOX library. You can check the installed version by typing
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in your terminal.
If the answer is fox @1.6.53_0 (active) then you have a bugged version of the library.
To revert the library to a working version do the following:
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git clone --single-branch https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git
cd macports-ports/x11/fox
git checkout 34b30703366e8483e99040b52e8fb905bc9b27e8
sudo port install
The clone operation downloads roughly 130 MB of data!
This will install the previous version of the library.
You can check the current version by typing again port installed | grep fox which should now show
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The SUMO GUI should now be working again.
Note: If you are having troubles compiling for Windows, you might want to check out Instant Plexe in the download section.
Download and extract the OMNeT++ Windows sources in C:\Users\<user>\src.
Open the Mingw terminal inside the OMNeT++ folder and type
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make -j <number of cores of your PC>
Open the Mingw terminal in the OMNeT++ source folder and cd into /c/Users/<user>/src/plexe-veins.
To compile Plexe-Veins follow Linux instructions.
Open the Mingw terminal in the OMNeT++ source folder and cd into /c/Users/<user>/src/plexe-sumo.
Checkout the correct code version by typing
1 git checkout plexe-2.1
Building SUMO for Windows should now have become easier as SUMO moved to CMake, which can automatically generate Visual Studio solution files. Please visit the official SUMO website to find the instructions for building SUMO on Windows using CMake and Visual Studio.
Once built, add C:\Users\<user>\src\plexe-sumo\bin to your Windows PATH.
Install R for Windows from the official website and then install R tools.
When the installation is complete, edit your Windows PATH to include R and Rtools binaries folder (e.g., c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\mingw_64\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.0\bin\x64\;).
Download the OMNeT++ R package from here and save it in C:\Users\<user>\src.
Open the R console and install the required packages by typing
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install.packages(c('ggplot2', 'reshape2', 'data.table'))
install.packages("omnetpp_0.7-1.tar.gz", repos=NULL)
The installation will ask you to install the packages to a local folder.
Reply with YES and take note of that folder.
Then add an additional environmental variable called R_LIBS which points to the location of the installed R libraries, for example
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Now you should be able to start R by typing R in the Mingw console provided by OMNeT++.