Unable to install OMNeT++ 5.4 for Windows

Question

When I run command ./configure I receive below mentioned error:

configure: error: Cannot build Qt apps, probably due to missing or too old Qt packages. Make sure Qt development packages are installed and newer than Qt 5.4. You can disable Qtenv by setting the WITH_QTENV variable to "no" in configure.user.

I have installed Qt5.9.0 after receiving above error, installed mingw-32bit but still receiving same error. Can anyone help me to solve the problem?

Answer 1

I'll share what worked for me. After installing the Qt package, remove the existing omnetpp directory and extract it from the zip file again. Run mingwenv.cmd, so that it initiates the tools extraction and is now able to load the installed Qt package. Running ./configure now doesn't show the error.

Answer 2

I have removed polish characters from directory path and it solved thie problem. Check if directory has any special characters in directory path.

Answer 3

The OMNeT++ package for Windows contains all libraries and other tools (including JRE), so there is no need to install anything separately.

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To install OMNeT++ in Windows one should:

1. Download a proper version of OMNeT++ - i.e. OMNeT++ 5.4 (Windows).
2. Turn off aniti-virus real time protection.
3. Extract the whole archive into a directory whose name doesn't contain spaces.
4. Double-click mingwenv.cmd, then press any key.
5. After some time in the mingwenv console type: ./configure, then make.
6. In the mingwenv console type omnetpp to start OMNeT++.

Later, to start OMNeT++ one should double click mingwenv.cmd, type omnetpp and do not close console.