Get vle from sources for vle 1.1

On this page you can see how to get sources of vle and how to build and install vle-1.1.

On Debian and Ubuntu, the documentation shows how to install without using the deb package system. I you want to produce a deb package, read this section. You can also use different building options.

Table of content:

Get source code
Building options
Build on Debian Sid
Build on Ubuntu 12.04
Build on Ubuntu 14.04
Building a Deb package (Ubuntu or Debian)
Building a RPM package (RedHat)
Build on Win32 (not recommended)
Build for Win32 : cross compilation with MXE (not recommended, deprecated)

### Get source code You can get sources from either the git repository

git clone https://github.com/vle-forge/vle.git
cd vle/
git checkout -b v1.1.2 v1.1.2

Or the source archive :

Download vle-1.1 on sourceforge
decompress the archive (use tar xfz on linux and for example 7zip on windows)

Building options.

The examples of buildings process that are given into this page can be modified by using arguments of cmake line :

-DWITH_MPI : if OFF , the mpi application mvle will not be built, if ON it will require that mpi is intalled on your computer.
-DWITH_GTK : if OFF, the gui application gvle will not be built, this can be usefull if it is not required. For example if you just want to launch simulations on a cluster, you do not need gvle for the design of the model.
-DWITH_GTKSOURCEVIEW : on several linux OS gtksourceview which is used for the syntax highlighting on the gvle editor is not availabe. This option has no meanings if WITH_GTK is OFF.
-DWITH_QT : if OFF, the gui application gvle2 will not be built, this can be usefull if it is not required. For example if you just want to launch simulations on a cluster, you do not need gvle2 for the design of the model.

### Build on Debian Sid, Jessie and Wheezy

# install the dependencies
sudo aptitude install cmake g++ libgtkmm-2.4-dev libglademm-2.4-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev \
   libboost-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-filesystem-dev  \
   libboost-test-dev  libboost-regex-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev \
   libboost-mpi-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-chrono-dev \
   libarchive-dev libasio-dev libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin
# download and build VLE
cd vle-1.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_GTKSOURCEVIEW=ON -DWITH_GTK=ON -DWITH_CAIRO=ON -DWITH_MPI=ON \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

### Build on Ubuntu 12.04

# install the dependencies
sudo apt-get install cmake g++ libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev libglademm-2.4-dev \
     libboost1.48-dev libboost-serialization1.48-dev libboost-date-time1.48-dev \
     libboost-filesystem1.48-dev libboost-test1.48-dev libboost-regex1.48-dev \
     libboost-program-options1.48-dev libboost-thread1.48-dev libboost-chrono1.48-dev \
     libarchive-dev
# download and build VLE
cd vle-1.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_GTKSOURCEVIEW=ON -DWITH_GTK=ON -DWITH_CAIRO=ON -DWITH_MPI=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo              \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

### Build on Ubuntu 14.04

# install the dependencies
sudo apt-get install cmake g++ libgtkmm-2.4-dev libglademm-2.4-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev \
    libboost1.55-dev libboost-serialization1.55-dev \
    libboost-date-time1.55-dev libboost-filesystem1.55-dev \
    libboost-test1.55-dev libboost-regex1.55-dev \
    libboost-program-options1.55-dev libboost-thread1.55-dev \
    libboost-chrono1.55-dev libarchive-dev libqt4-dev
 # build vle
 cd vle
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake -DWITH_GTKSOURCEVIEW=ON -DWITH_GTK=ON -DWITH_CAIRO=ON -DWITH_MPI=OFF \
       -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo              \
       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
 make
 make install

Building a Deb package (Ubuntu or Debian).

Rather than installing directly the binaries and include, you can buil a debian package. Replace :

 make
 make install

with :

 make
 cpack -G DEB
 sudo  dpkg -i vle-1.1-Linux-i686.deb

Building a RPM package (RedHat) - not available for vle-1.1.2.

Download rpms:

Known bugs:

Do not use cpack. Cpack do not computes proper dependencies. Cpack wrongly register system folder as RPM owned files. Cpack always put libs in /usr/lib, event for x86_64 libs. Instead, use the standard way, by writing a spec file. The documentation for writing such files is here
Due to a bug in cmake scripts, MPI is not detected properly. The actual RPM disable MPI support as a workaround.
Cmake (or maybe make install, I'm not sure), always install libs in $DESTDIR/usr/lib, but Fedora requires libs to be in an architecture dependant folder (e.g., on x86_64, libs go in $DESTDIR/usr/lib64). This bug is fixed by renaming the lib folder in the %install section of the spec file. This is a workaround ; for a cleaner install, the original make/cmake has to be patched to handle an option that specifies where the libs are installed.
The current RPM do not pass the tests. Now the %check section is disabled as a workaround, but further work is required to investigate what's wrong.

ctest output

 4 - utilstest_package (Failed)
 10 - vpztest_io (Failed)
 14 - vpztest_graph (Failed)

Build a RPM for your platform

First set your system by following the section : Preparing your system.
Login as the makerpm user, download vle.spec, and store it in /home/makerpm/rpmbuild/SPECS/
Compute the RPM by running rpmbuild -ba SPECS/vle.spec
If rpmbuild complains of missing dependancies, install them with yum install missing_stuff

Commands :

 # run as root
 yum -y install @development-tools fedora-packager
 useradd makerpm
 usermod -a -G mock makerpm
 passwd makerpm
 
 #run as makerpm
 cd ~
 rpmdev-setuptree
 cd rpmbuild/SPECS
 wget --no-check-certificate https://tentacule.be/share/record/vle.spec
 cd ..
 rpmbuild -ba SPECS/vle.spec

### Build on Win32 (not recommended)

You should consider using the binaries of vle.

Declare a build environment
```
 set VLE_BUILD_ENV=c:\natifvle
```

Downloads and pre install

 Download Boost into %VLE_BUILD_ENV%        **** boost_1_54_0
 git clone vle sources into %VLE_BUILD_ENV% **** dev
 Install Mingw                              **** mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe
 Install gtkmm                              **** gtkmm-win32-devel-2.22 .0-1.exe
 Install gtksourcevieww                     **** gtksourceview-2.10.0.zip
 Install cmake                              **** cmake-2.8.12-2
 Install doxygen                            **** latest doxygen version 1.8.6

2.1) Download and install mingw : mingw-get-inst-20120426

    ** You can find it here :
    ** http://www.vle-project.org/pub/3rd-party
    ** During install:
    ** 1) use pre-packaged repository catalogues;
    ** 2) select C, C++, Fortran compilers, Msys (Msys is for rvle build only)
    ** 3) install into the default directory C:\MinGW
    ** 4) Do NOT Add C:\MinGW\bin to the path

2.2) Download and install CMake-2.8

    ** You can find it here :
    ** http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.11-win32-x86.exe
    ** or http://www.vle-project.org/pub/3rd-party
    ** During install:
    ** 1) choose install path c:\CMake
    ** 2) Do NOT Add C:\CMake\bin to the path

2.3) Install gtkmm binaries

   ** You can fing it here
   ** http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.22/gtkmm-win32-devel-2.22.0-2.exe
   ** During install, install into the default directory C:\gtkmm

2.4) Download boost_1_54_0.zip and unzip into %VLE_BUILD_ENV%\boost_1_54_0

2.5) Download doxygen-1.8.6 and install into the default installation directory

2.6) Download Gtksourceview-2.0

   ** You can fing it here
   ** http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtksourceview/2.10/gtksourceview-2.10.0.zip
   ** http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtksourceview/2.10/gtksourceview-dev-2.10.0.zip
   ** Unzip files into the default directory C:\gtkmm
   ** Copy libgtksourceview-2.0-0.dll into C:\gtkmm\redist

2.7) Clone VLE

   git clone vle into %VLE_BUILD_ENV%\vle

Building script

set VLE_BUILD_ENV=c:\natifvle
set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=c:\gtkmm\lib\pkgconfig;C:\MinGW\lib\pkgconfig
set boostversion=1_54

set builddir="%VLE_BUILD_ENV%\build"
set sourcedir="%VLE_BUILD_ENV%\vle"
set installdir=%VLE_BUILD_ENV%\install
set boost_src="%VLE_BUILD_ENV%\boost_%boostversion%_0"
set boost_root="%VLE_BUILD_ENV%\install\boost"
set boost_include_path="%boost_root%\include"
set boost_library_path="%boost_root%\lib"
set vlepathtestbin=%installdir%\vle\bin
set cmakepath=c:\CMake
set OLDPATH=%PATH%
set PATH=c:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
set PATH=c:\gtkmm\bin;%PATH%
set PATH=%cmakepath%\bin;%PATH%
set PATH=%vlepathtestbin%;%PATH%

mkdir %builddir%\vle
mkdir %installdir%\vle

mingw-get install libarchive
mingw-get install gettext

cd %boost_src%\tools\build\v2
bootstrap.bat gcc
b2 toolset=gcc install --prefix=%boost_src%\b2
cd %boost_src%
b2\bin\b2 --toolset=gcc --with-date_time --with-filesystem --with-program_options --with-random --with-regex --with-system --with-test --with-thread --with-timer variant=release threading=multi link=shared runtime-link=shared stage
mkdir %boost_root%
mkdir %boost_include_path%
mkdir %boost_include_path%\boost
xcopy /E %boost_src%\boost %boost_include_path%\boost
xcopy /E %boost_src%\stage\lib %boost_library_path%\

cd %builddir%\vle
cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DWITH_MPI=OFF -DWITH_GTKSOURCEVIEW=ON -DWITH_DOXYGEN=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%installdir%\vle -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DVLE_CMAKE_PATH="c:\cmake" -DVLE_MINGW_PATH="c:\mingw" -DVLE_GTK_PATH="c:\gtkmm" -DVLE_BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH=%boost_include_path% -DVLE_BOOST_LIBRARIES_PATH=%boost_library_path% %sourcedir%
mingw32-make install
mingw32-make test

cpack.exe -G NSIS
set PATH=%OLDPATH%

### Build for Win32 : cross compilation with MXE (not recommended, deprecated)

You should consider using the binaries of vle.

We use the MXE Environment to build the Windows 32 bits binaries.

 # Settings the MXE environment
 export MXEENV=/cross/env
 export VLEENV=/cross/env/vle

 cd $MXEENV

 # Install the dependencies
 aptitude install -R autoconf automake bash bison bzip2 \
                 flex gettext git g++ intltool \
                 libtool libltdl-dev openssl libssl-dev \
                 libxml-parser-perl make patch perl \
                 pkg-config scons sed unzip wget \
                 xz-utils yasm

 # download the latest version of CMake and remove the installed version.
 wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.9.tar.gz
 tar zxf cmake-2.8.9.tar.gz
 cd cmake-2.8.9
 ./booststrap && make -j 2 && sudo make install

 # Build the cross compilation environment
 cd $MXEENV
 git clone -b stable https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git
 cd mxe

 # Cross compile the dependencies of VLE
 make gcc JOBS=2
 make gtkmm2 JOBS=2
 make libxml2 JOBS=2
 make gtksourceviewmm2 JOBS=2
 make boost JOBS=2
 make libarchive JOBS=2
 make curl JOBS=2
 make pthreads JOBS=2

 # Assign environment variables to build VLE
 export PATH=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH_i686_pc_mingw32=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/lib/pkgconfig
 export BOOST_ROOT=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32
 export BOOST_INCLUDEDIR=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include
 export BOOST_lIBRARYDIR=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib

 # Cross compile pkg-config
 cd $MXEENV
 wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.27.1.tar.gz
 tar zxf pkg-config-0.27.1.tar.gz
 cd pkg-config-0.27.1
 ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=$MXEENV/install
 make
 make install

 # Cross compile VLE
 cd $MXEENV
 git clone git://github.com/vle-forge/vle.git

 mkdir $MXEENV/build
 cd $MXEENV/build
 cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
     -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON \
     -DBoost_USE_MULTITHREADED=ON \
     -DBoost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME=OFF \
     -DWITH_MPI=OFF \
     -DWITH_TEST=OFF \
     -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
     -DMXE_PATH=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32 \
     -DPKG_CONFIG_EXE_PATH=$MXEENV/install/bin \
     -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$MXEENV/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/share/cmake/mxe-conf.cmake \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$MXEENV/install \
     $VLEENV
 make VERBOSE=1 -j 2 && make install

To complete the compilation process, use one of the two solutions.

For users (recommended), generate a windows installer which can be exuted

     cpack -G NSIS

For developpers only, we rely on a shared directory (in this example: /cross/shared) between the linux host and a windows virtual machine drive (in this example: z:).

    ln -s  $MXEENV/install /cross/shared

On the windows virtual machine, one has to set the registry key used by vle:

For windows 32 bits, execute the .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VLE Development Team\VLE 1.1.0]
@="z:\\install"
"path"="Z:\\install"

For windows 64 bits, execute the .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VLE Development Team\VLE 1.1.0]
@="z:\\install"
"path"="Z:\\install"

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