FEP Simulator Installation Instructions

The purpose of this document is to walk a developer through setting up / installing the FEPSimulator in the TMC Simulation room.
The FEPSimulator runs persistently on the linux VM and awaits messages (over a socket) from the ATMSDriver, and makes rpc calls to the ATMS Server using the message data.
See FEP Simulator documentation for more details (not written yet).

Step 1: SSH into the linux VM

In a terminal, run:

    $ ssh <username>@192.168.251.46

to ssh into the linux VM.

Step 2: Check out the FEPSimulator repository

To check out the FEPSimulator repository, use an svn checkout.

In your terminal, run:

    $ cd && svn co svn+ssh://<username>@git.tokomak.net/svn/tmcsimulator/branches/FEPSimulator

This will checkout the FEPSimulator into your home user directory.

Step 3: Build the FEPSimulator project

In your terminal, run:

    $ cd FEPSimulator/ && make

Step 4: run the ./runFEPSim bash script

To start the FEPSimulator, you will need to run the ./runFEPSim bash script, located in the FEPSimulator/ repository.

In your terminal, run:

    $ ./runFEPSim

Thats it!

Note to Developers

If you are working on the FEPSimulator code, it is dependent on the tinyxml static library to parse the message sent from the ATMSDriver.
The library files are included in the repo @ FEPSimulator/tinyxml
The project is configured to link the linux static library file, a file named "tinyxml.a". (Because in production it runs on linux VM)
Also included in the tinyxml/ folder is a static library file for osx operating systems, a file named "libosxtinyxml.a"
If you are on another operating system, create a new Netbeans Static C++ library application, add the tinyxml files located in FEPSimulator/tinyxml/ and run to create the static library for your operating system.
To link the correct library file for your os, in Netbeans, right click your project > Properties > Linker > Libraries > Add Library File... > Select the appropriate static library file.