omnet on Xcode

[caxqueiroz]

Hi there,
I am running snow leopard and the omnet IDE performance is very bad on
it. Didn't find an omnetpp plugin to add on eclipse x86_64 for Mac.
I am wondering if it is possible to use Xcode to run omnet projects.
anyone with experience?

[Rudolf Hornig]

Could you please describe which parts of the IDE is slow? We have tested the IDE only with Leopard. In general the whole IDE is 32 bit only, but 32 bit code still have to run on 10.6 or am I missing something?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:32 AM, caxqueiroz <caxqu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,
I am running snow leopard and the omnet IDE performance is very bad on
it. Didn't find an omnetpp plugin to add on eclipse x86_64 for Mac.

 There is no architecute specific OMNET plugin for MAC OS because the plugin is compiled as a univrsal binary (contains both ppc and x86 code, but does not contain 64 bit x86).

I am wondering if it is possible to use Xcode to run omnet projects.
anyone with experience?

In general yes. In the end OMNeT++ is just a C++ program, so it is possible to compile it with the XCode environment, however you are on your own to write your makefiles (or whatever it is used in XCode), ini files, ned files. I would rather suggest to try to figure out, why OMNET is slow on your machine.

First of all, could you check your sampes/.metadata/.log file and verify if there are no errors in the logfile?

Rudolf
 

[caxqueiroz]

hi there,

The parsing of NED and INI files drives me crazy. uses lots of cpu.
And after that the IDE becomes a bit unresponsive, only a restart to
fix it.
At the moment I am opening these files in text-mode only.
I am also getting different behaviours running the same simulation on
Linux and on SL (Snow Leopard). Not sure what is happening as yet.
It will be nice if we have a eclipse plugin to hook up on Eclipse.
Even though, eclipse c/c++ plugin is not recognising x86_64 binaries
at the moment.

On Jul 13, 11:37 pm, Rudolf Hornig <rudolf.hor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please describe which parts of the IDE is slow? We have tested the
> IDE only with Leopard. In general the whole IDE is 32 bit only, but 32 bit
> code still have to run on 10.6 or am I missing something?
>

[Rudolf Hornig]

Once 10.6 is out officially we will look into the issue. As it seems that most applications will go to 64 bit and the ppc support will be dropped, we have to recompile/retest everything on 10.6 too.

I'm guessing the 32bit support library is not working correctly on the developer build you are using.
We will se what we can do in october.

Rudolf

[caxqueiroz]

Finally I've move over to Xcode. No more annoyances from omnetpp IDE.
Everything compiled and working on 64-bit :). Xcode rocks.