Running examples developed under Linux on Windows OS

xue gao

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Aug 30, 2021, 6:09:56 PM8/30/21

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Hello all,

I installed my Omnet++ on Windows OS. But it seems like lots of projects are built in Linux system.

I am wondering if I can run those projects on Windows OS?

Thank you in advance!

Rudolf Hornig

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Aug 31, 2021, 7:44:57 AM8/31/21

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OMNeT++ is using MinGW on windows which is a Unix emulation layer. Anything you can build on Linux you can build also on Windows with OMNeT++ (the only thing is that if a project is using dynamic linking exported functions should be properly marked in the code but all of the omnest samples also properly compile on all platforms).

Rudolf Hornig

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Aug 31, 2021, 7:46:10 AM8/31/21

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One more thing: running the Linux version of OMNeT++ on Windows in the Linux subsystem works just right also, so you can also decide to use that instead of the native Windows version.

xue gao

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Aug 31, 2021, 8:50:42 AM8/31/21

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Thank you a lot.

The example project is based on INET2.0. My understanding is that INET (window version or Linux version)can build successfully on Windows. Is that right?

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