Working with an IDE

Although not necessarily required, you can also configure an IDE in order to more comfortably work with ms-van3t.

Qt-Creator

The suggested IDE, which has also been used for the development of ms-van3t, is QtCreator.

You can find all the instructions for setting up QtCreator with ns-3 (and the same applies to ms-van3t, as it is based on ns-3) on the official ns-3 Wiki.

QtCreator can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with:

sudo apt install qtcreator

You need also to install the libclang-common-8-dev package (the command for Debian/Ubuntu is reported below):

sudo apt install libclang-common-8-dev

Not installing libclang-common-8-dev may result in QtCreator wrongly highlighting several errors and not recognizing some types, when opening any source or header file, even if the code compiles correctly.

Important: if libclang-common-8-dev is not available, you can try installing a newer version. For example, on Ubuntu 22, we verified that libclang-common-15-dev works well too.

CLion

If using ms-van3t in Windows with WSL refer to this guide –> https://gabrielcarvfer.github.io/NS3/installation/clion . For Ubuntu, you may follow these steps:

After opening CLion, go to File > Open.. and select the path/to/ms-van3t/ns-3-dev/ like in the picture.
Click on trust project.
Leave the default toolchain and click Next
Setup the CMake configuration as seen in the picture, you may change the build folder name if desired. Recommended Cmake Options (change debug for a different desired build type):
```
-G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug -Wall -DNS3_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF -DNS3_EXAMPLES=ON
```
Go to File and click on Reload CMake Project
Select the desired target, either libautomotive for building the entire module or a specific example target (e.g., v2i-areaSpeedAdvisor-80211p), and click build.
Before running a given target go to Edit configurations.

Enter the path/to/ms-van3t/ns-3-dev as Working directory and desired command-line arguments as Program Arguments.