Obtaining and Installing CoSMIC

CoSMIC Installation

Binary Releases

Instructions for Source Release

System Requirements

1. Windows 2000/XP/Windows Server 2003/XP x64
2. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Professional (or Enterprise)
3. Activestate ActivePerl. Please note that Cygwin perl or MinGW perl will not work.
4. Generic Modeling Environment (GME) version 6.11.9
5. Universal Data Model (UDM) version 3.1.1 for MSVC 7.1 (or MSVC 8.0)
6. Boost library version 1.32 or later. Pre-compiled versions (VC7.1/VC8.0)are also available.
7. Xerces version 2.7.0 or later. Pre-compiled versions (VC7.1/VC8.0)are also available.
8. ZLib version 1.2.3 or later. Pre-compiled versions (VC7.1/VC8.0)are also available.
9. The latest SVN version of ACE/TAO/CIAO. Checkout ACE/TAO/CIAO/MPC from SVN (using anonymous SVN) using the following commands:
   
   svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/trunk/ACE ACE

svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/trunk/TAO TAO

svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/trunk/CIAO CIAO

svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/MPC/trunk MPC
   
   
10. The latest SVN version of CoSMIC. Checkout CoSMIC from SVN (using anonymous SVN) using the following command:
    
    svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CoSMIC/trunk/CoSMIC CoSMIC
    
    

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Professional, Activestate ActivePerl.
2. Install GME using the Windows Installer package. If you encounter any problems with installing GME, please report the problem to the gme-users mailing list.
3. Install UDM using the Windows Installer package. If you encounter any problems with installing UDM, please report the problem to the udm-users mailing list.
4. Compile and install Boost. Or alternatively, unzip the pre-compiled version to some directory.
   • Set the environment variable BOOST_ROOT to point to the directory where you have installed Boost. For example, if you unzipped the pre-compiled version to C:\Tools, you will need to set BOOST_ROOT to point to C:\Tools\Boost. Please ensure that the values of %BOOST_ROOT%\lib and %BOOST_ROOT%\include are valid, i.e., they both should point to some valid directory.
   • Set the environment variable BOOST_VERSION to contain the name of the the directory immediately under $(BOOST_ROOT)/include. For example, if you downloaded the pre-compiled version of Boost, your BOOST_VERSION should be equal to boost-1_32.
   • Add the directory %BOOST_ROOT%\lib to your PATH.
5. Compile and install Zlib. Or alternatively, unzip the pre-compiled version to some directory.
   • Set the environment variable ZLIB_ROOT to point to the directory where you have installed Zlib. For example, if you unzipped the pre-compiled version to C:\Tools, you will need to set ZLIB_ROOT to point to C:\Tools\Zlib. Please ensure that the values of %ZLIB_ROOT%\lib and %ZLIB_ROOT%\include are valid, i.e., they both should point to some valid directory.
   • Add the directory %ZLIB_ROOT%\bin to your PATH.
6. Compile and install Xerces. Or alternatively, unzip the pre-compiled version to some directory.
   • If you choose to compile Xerces, you need to enable the setting in MSVC 7.1 so that wchar_t is treated as a built-in type. You can do this by setting Project->Properties->C/C++->Language->Treat wchar_t as Built-in Type to "Yes".
   • Set the environment variable XERCESCROOT to point to the directory where you have installed Xerces. For example, if you unzipped the pre-compiled version to C:\Tools, you will need to set XERCESCROOT to point to C:\Tools\xerces-c-2_7_0-win32-vc7. Please ensure that the values of %XERCESCROOT%\bin and %XERCESCROOT%\include are valid, i.e., they both should point to some valid directory.
   • Add the directory %XERCESCROOT%\bin to your PATH.
7. Compile and install ACE/TAO/CIAO. You don't have to compile all of ACE+TAO+CIAO to be able to build CoSMIC. You need to compile only the TAO_IDL compiler.
   • Information on how to compile and install ACE+TAO+CIAO is available. If you have any problems with building the TAO_IDL compiler, you should report the problem to tao-users mailing list.
   • Make sure that you have set ACE_ROOT and TAO_ROOT environment variables.
   • Add the directory %ACE_ROOT%\lib to your PATH.
8. Set COSMIC_ROOT to point to the top-level CoSMIC directory in your local Subversion workspace.
9. Add %COSMIC_ROOT%\bin to your PATH.
10. In order to be able to register the interperters with GME from within Visual Studio, you need to add the directories which contain the DLLs, i.e., all of the directories that you added to your PATH, into your VC++ directories setting. The easiest way to do this is to just add your PATH to VC++ directories. You can do this by navigating to Tools->Options->Projects->VC++ Directories. Choose the appropriate platform (e.g., Win32). Make sure that the value of "Show directories for:" is Executable files. Add $(PATH) at the end of the list of directories.
11. Register the PICML paradigm into GME. You can do this by running GME.exe, and File->Register Paradigms->Add from File->Browse to %COSMIC_ROOT%\PIM\PICML\paradigms\ and select PICML.xmp->Close.
12. Register the WSML paradigm into GME. You can do this by running GME.exe, and File->Register Paradigms->Add from File->Browse to %COSMIC_ROOT%\PIM\WSML\paradigms\ and select WSML.xmp->Close.
13. Register the SIML paradigm into GME. You can do this by running GME.exe, and File->Register Paradigms->Add from File->Browse to %COSMIC_ROOT%\PIM\SIML\paradigms\ and select SIML.xmp->Close.
14. cd %COSMIC_ROOT%
15. Generate the Visual Studio solution. If you are using VC7.1:
    
    %ACE_ROOT%\bin\mwc.pl -type vc71 cosmic.mwc
    
    If you are using VC8.0:
    
    %ACE_ROOT%\bin\mwc.pl -type vc8 cosmic.mwc
    
    
16. Open the generated cosmic.sln and build the solution.

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