RTLib2.0: Real-time simulation library

A new version of the rtlib library, cleaned (hopefully) and ready to be redesigned.

Authors: Giuseppe Lipari Maintainer: Fabio Cremona

Contributors: Fabio Cremona, Matteo Morelli, Luca Abeni, Marco Caccamo, Fabio Rossi, Claudio Scordino, Gerardo Lamastra, Antonino Casile, Cesare Bartolini, Claudio Scordino, Luca Marzario

Copyright: Retis Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna email: g.lipari@sssup.it, f.cremona@sssup.it

This is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL). See COPYING for more details.

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SUMMARY

1. INTRODUCTION
2. RELEASE NOTES
3. DEPENDENCIES
4. COMPILING
5. INSTALLING
6. RUNNING THE EXAMPLES
7. ADD A NEW EXAMPLE
8. BUGS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

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1. INTRODUCTION

RtLib2.0 is a library for Real-Time Kernels Simulation written in C++. It has been developed as an internal project at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna as part of many research project, mainly thanks to the work of many PhD students.

2. RELEASE NOTES

This software has been tested under Linux, MacOSX and Windows. Supported (tested) compilers are:

- g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu9) 4.8.1
- clang++ (Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40))
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012    

We assume the user has the compiler already installed on his machine.

3. DEPENDENCIES

RtLib2.0 is based on MetaSim2.0 (Event-based simulator). Before you compile RtLib2.0, you have to download MetaSim2.0 and compile it. MetaSim2.0 is available as git repository at https://github.com/glipari/metasim2.0

4. COMPILING

The software can be compiled on any platform with the appropriate compiler as listed in section 2.

RtLib.0 build system is based on CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build system. To compile RtLib.0 you must have CMake (ver. >= 2.6) installed on your machine.

If you altready have CMake installed on your machine you can skip the following section and jump to section 4.2.

4.1. Installing CMake

Follow the instructions at http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/install.html

4.2. Compiling under Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X)

The steps to build and install the software are the usual ones:

cd rtlib.0
mkdir build
cd build
ccmake ..

The execution of "ccmake .." command cause CMake program execution. To generate the makefile needed to compile the library, you have to press 'c' key twice and then press 'g'. By pressing 'g' CMake will generate the makefile and will go back the the command line. Now you can compile the library:

make 

Last step will compile the library, the executable for the test and the examples included with the library. Output directories are: - src/ - test/ - examples/

The library is located in src/

4.3. Compiling under Windows

execute CMake

In the location "Where is the source code:" indicate the path to the folder rtlib2.0 In the location "Where to build the binaries:" indicate the path to the folder where you want to put the output (usually = ${Path to rtlib2.0}/build). Now click "Configure". CMake will ask to specify the generator for the project. You should select Visual Studio 11 and click Finish. When the process will finish, click again on "Configure" and then click to "Generate". This last step will generate the Visual Studio project "rtlib.sln". Open the folder you selected for your output and double click on the generated file "rtlib.sln" to open the project. In Visual Studio and then in the command bar select the BUILD menu and click Build Solution. Compilation process will start. Output directories are: - src/Debug/ - test/Debug/ - examples/Debug/

The library is located in src/Debug

4.4. Test

Beside testing is not mandatory, we highly recommend to execute it. The test suite is located in test/ (unix-like systems) or in /test/Debug (windows systems) and can be executed to test if the compilation flow went ok.

• For unix-like systems: cd rtlib2.0/build cd test ./test_rtlib

• For Windows systems: cd rtlib2.0/build cd test cd Debug test_rtlib.exe

The execution must terminate with all tests passed.

The tests have been written using the Catch library, which is a single include file that you can find in the test directory.

https://github.com/philsquared/Catch

5. INSTALLING

Currently, installation is not supported. After compilation, all header files and the library file are found in the src/ (src/Debug for Windows systems) directory. Simply put the path of the src directory in the CPPFLAGS and in the LDFLAGS when you want to use the library.

6. RUNNING THE EXAMPLES

Every directory under one of the "examples" directories contains a different example. Go inside the directory and run the executable file.

7.1 Unix-like systems

For example, to run the rm example, go inside the directory examples/eth and type

./rm

5.2 Windows systems

For example, to run the eth example, go inside the directory examples/Debug/eth and double click on eth.exe.

8. ADD A NEW EXAMPLE

To add a new example to the library, you have to

• Create a new folder in rtlib2.0/examples with the name of your example.
• Edit the file rtlib2.0/examples/CMakeLists.txt adding the specification for your example: add_subdirectory(name_of_your_example)

Once you wrote the code of your example, you should re-generate the makefile. Follow the instructions ins section 3 for the generation of the makefile and compile.

9. BUGS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

For bug reports, feature requests and other issues you may encounter, please refer to the appropriate pages on the github site:

http://github.com/glipari/rtlib2.0

Giuseppe Lipari g.lipari@sssup.it

Fabio Cremona f.cremona@sssup.it