Deployment

A POSIX compliant environment is required for MSIM to be compiled and executed. It has been succesfully tested on GNU/Linux in various distributions (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) and platforms (x86, AMD64, UltraSPARC, PowerPC). MSIM also runs in Solaris, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X

Under Windows MSIM can be compiled and executed in Cygwin or using MinGW/MSYS as a native Win32 console application (although the functionality might be somehow limited).

A standard toolchain of consisting of a C compiler (preferably GCC) and usual utilities (Bash, GNU Make) are the prerequisites for building MSIM. The GNU readline library is also required.

Package installation

We provide automatically built packages for Fedora and other RPM-based distributions over COPR in our D3S repository.

Fedora

Following commands are intended for Fedora and you might need to update them to match your distribution.

sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core  # Only if COPR plugin is not installed
sudo dnf copr enable d3s/main      # Add our repository
sudo dnf install msim              # Install MSIM package
msim --version                     # Verify package is installed

Arch Linux

MSIM is available in the Arch User Repository (AUR) and can be installed via the msim or msim-git packages.

Manual installation

If you cannot use prepackaged version (or you wish to modify MSIM) then the following will guide you through the manual installation process.

TL;DR version is: clone our Git repository and execute the standard trio if ./configure, make and sudo make install.

Download

The following commands will checkout the latest version from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/d-iii-s/msim.git
cd msim

Configuration

To configure the package for compilation use the configure scripts. The script should detect all important compilation options and check for prerequisites.

Specific options to the configure script can be used, e.g. --prefix= to set the installation prefix.

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compilation

After a successful execution of configure just run make to compile the sources. No special arguments are usually necessary.

make

Note that MSIM uses makedepend for dependency generation.

Installation

If the compilation is successful, you can use the following command to install the binary and supplementary files into the installation prefix. You will probably need root privileges to install MSIM into system-wide prefix.

make install
# or sudo make install
# or make install DESTDIR=$PWD/PKG/