\section faq_simgrid I'm new to SimGrid. I have some questions. Where should I start?
You are at the right place... Having a look to these
-<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~quinson/articles/simgrid-tutorial.pdf">the tutorial slides</a>
-(or to these <a href="http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~alegrand/articles/slides_g5k_simul.pdf">old slides</a>,
-or to these
+<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~quinson/blog/2010/06/28/Tutorial_at_HPCS/">the slides of the HPCS'10 tutorial</a>
+(or to these <a href="http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~alegrand/articles/slides_g5k_simul.pdf">ancient
+slides</a>, or to these
<a href="http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~alegrand/articles/Simgrid-Introduction.pdf">"obsolete" slides</a>)
may give you some insights on what SimGrid can help you to do and what
are its limitations. Then you definitely should read the \ref
\li cmake 2.8 <a href="http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html">(download page)</a>
\li perl strawberry <a href="http://www.strawberryperl.com/download/5.12.2.0/strawberry-perl-5.12.2.0.msi">(download page)</a>
\li pcre-7.0 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/pcre/7.0/pcre-7.0.exe/download">(download page)</a>
-
+ \li git <a href="http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe">(download page)</a>
+
\subsubsection faq_cmakeoption1 Liste of options
\verbatim
On Windows
+Open the "Git Bash" window.
\verbatim
cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -D[name]=[value] ... ./
gmake
users.
These archives can be found on
-<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~quinson/simgrid.html">this web page</a>. Once you
+<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~quinson/Research/SimGrid/">this web page</a>. Once you
got the lastest archive, you can compile it just like any archive (see above).
\subsection faq_compiling_svn Compiling SimGrid from the SVN
\subsection faq_trouble_lib_compil SimGrid compilation and installation problems
-\subsubsection faq_trouble_lib_config ./configure fails!
+\subsubsection faq_trouble_lib_config cmake fails!
We know only one reason for the configure to fail:
- <b>You are using a broken build environment</b>\n
- If symptom is that configure complains about gcc not being able to build
+ If symptom is that the configury magic complains about gcc not being able to build
executables, you are probably missing the libc6-dev package. Damn Ubuntu.
If you experience other kind of issue, please get in touch with us. We are
always interested in improving our portability to new systems.
-\subsubsection faq_trouble_distcheck Dude! "make check" fails on my machine!
+\subsubsection faq_trouble_distcheck Dude! "ctest" fails on my machine!
Don't assume we never run this target, because we do. Check
-http://bob.loria.fr:8010 if you don't believe us.
-
-There is several reasons which may cause the make check to fail on your
-machine:
-
- - <b>You are using a broken libc (probably concerning the contextes)</b>.\n
- The symptom is that the "make check" fails within the examples/msg directory.\n
- By default, SimGrid uses something called ucontexts. This is part of the
- libc, but it's quite undertested. For example, some (old) versions of the
- glibc on alpha do not implement these functions, but provide the stubs
- (which return ENOSYS: not implemented). It may fool our detection mechanism
- and leads to segfaults. There is not much we can do to fix the bug.
- A workaround is to compile with --with-context=pthread to avoid
- ucontext completely. You'll be a bit more limited in the number
- of simulated processes you can start concurrently, but 5000
- processes is still enough for most purposes, isn't it?\n
- This limitation is the reason why we insist on using this piece of ...
- software even if it's so troublesome.\n
- <b>=> use --with-pthread on AMD64 architecture that do not have an
- ultra-recent libc.</b>
-
- - <b>There is a bug in SimGrid we aren't aware of</b>.\n
- If none of the above apply, please drop us a mail on the mailing list so
- that we can check it out. Make sure to read \ref faq_bugrepport
- before you do so.
+http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid (click on
+previous if there is no result for today: results are produced only by
+11am, French time) and
+https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=simgrid if you don't believe us.
+
+If it's failing on your machine in a way not experienced by the
+autobuilders above, please drop us a mail on the mailing list so that
+we can check it out. Make sure to read \ref faq_bugrepport before you
+do so.
\subsection faq_trouble_compil User code compilation problems
