Virtual Laboratory Environment 2.0

See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.

VLE is an operational framework for multi-modeling, simulation and analysis of complex dynamical systems. It addresses the reliability issue by using recent developments in the theory of modeling and simulation proposed by B. Zeigler with the Discrete Event System Specification formalism (DEVS).

Requirements

For the VFL API:

• libxml2 (≥ 2.8)
• boost (≥ 1.47)
• cmake (≥ 3.0)
• c++ compiler (gcc ≥ 4.9, clang ≥ 3.3, intel icc (≥ 11.0)

For the MPI command line:

• Any MPI 2 library as OpenMpi, mpich

For the GUI:

• Qt5

Getting the code

The source tree is currently hosted on Github and Sourceforge. To view the repository online: https://github.com/vle-forge/vle The URL to clone it:

git clone git://github.com/vle-forge/vle.git

Install dependencies (recent ubuntu/debian):

apt-get install libxml2-dev libboost-dev cmake pkg-config g++ \
        qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools \
        qtchooser qt5-default

Once you have met requirements, compiling and installing is simple:

cd vle
mkdir build
cd build
export QT_SELECT=qt5
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
make
make install

License

This software in GPLv3 or later. See the file COPYING. Some files are under a different license. Check the headers for the copyright info.

Usage

VLE is a multi-modeling environment to build model, to simulate and analys them. To more information, see the VLE website (http://www.vle-projet.org).

To build a new package::

vle -P mypackage create

To configure, build a package::

vle -P mypackage configure build

To run vpz in a package::

vle -P mypackage file.vpz