running cooja in contiki with cmd "ant run"

Question

When I want to run "ant run" in contiki-3.9/tools/cooja, I am facing following error:

BUILD FAILED /home/user/contiki-3.0/tools/cooja/build.xml:199: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/user/contiki-3.0/tools/cooja/apps/mspsim/build.xml:29: - Could not find the MSPSim build file. Did you run "git submodule update --init"?

but actually I ran

             git submodule init
             git submodule update

before using "ant run".

Please help me on this problem, I'm new to contiki-os and should use it for my master thesis

Solution 1

The following worked for me:

1. Download the mspsim separately from this link https://github.com/contiki-os/mspsim (check your home/contiki/tools/mspsim and home/contiki-3.0/tools/mspsim directories, both are probably empty).
2. Remove the empty mspsim directory from both places
3. After unzip mspsim-master, paste the unzipped mspsim-master directory on both places
4. Rename the directory from mspsim-master to mspsim on both palces.
5. Go to terminal (user@instant-contiki:~/contiki-3.0/tools/cooja$) and run this command ant run
6. No need to use sudo

Enjoy!

Solution 2

Please notice the last warring. If your English is not good, use Goolge Translate please. Just run "git submodule update --init" before run "ant run".

Solution 3

Then when I, ant run same appears again

BUILD FAILED
/home/user/contiki-3.0/tools/cooja/build.xml:199: The following error
occurred while executing this line:
/home/user/contiki-3.0/tools/cooja/apps/mspsim/build.xml:29: -
----------------
Could not find the MSPSim build file. Did you run "git submodule update
--init"?

My solution:

cd tools/cooja
rm -rf .git
cd ..
sudo git submodule update --init

Enjoy Cooja :)

Solution 4

• go to: contiki/tools/cooja
• run: git submodule update --init in the terminal
• now, try: ant run

Solution 5

Another solution for the Instant Contiki VMs would be:

mkdir ~/Downloads/contiki_clone

cd ~/Downloads/contiki_clone

git clone https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki.git

When it clones the Contiki, simply:

cd contiki/tools/cooja

git submodule update --init

ant run

These commands will let you have a brand new Contiki on your instant Contiki VM. You can simply delete the older contiki files in home directory and use this one. If you like to clone an older version, then:

mkdir ~/Downloads/contiki_clone

cd ~/Downloads/contiki_clone

git clone https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki.git

cd contiki

git checkout hash_of_the_older_version

cd tools/cooja

git submodule update --init

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Comments

[niousha]

Thank you so much for your response, but the problem was because of being the mspsim directory empty in original source of contiki that I download from github, so I had to redownload the mentioned directory

[Filipe Calasans]

The contiki directory on VM image is not a git repo, so it is not possible to apply git submodule update. Relax man, for sure he tried the obvious solution ...

[Ilja KO]

Thank you this was the answer that worked it is essentially making the same thing jsut a lot easier. I should read all the tipps the error messages give me I gues. Thank you for this answer this is the best in my opinion