Best configurstions for Software in Loop Simulator

Hi all,

Is it not good idea anymore to run SITL on windows 7 platform (with cygwin interface plus pyserial and other add ons) ? As I see dev.arupilot.com has removed the previous SITL tutorial, which was showing instruction to run the SITL on windows 7 platform. Instead, now they are suggesting to run ubuntu inside windows with VMWare and then perform SITL ( Latest Tutorial). I couldn't understand reason behind it very well.

Please tell me , is it reccomended to run SITL with all LINUX platform or I can still do it on Windows ?. Or should I run Qground control with XPlane ?

Also curretly I am following this tutorial from old website (Old Tutorial) and I am stuck at a step where we make

$ cd ArduPlane
$ make sitl
  
I am getting the "C:/GIT/ardupilot/mk/environ.mk:44: *** ERROR: cannot determine sketchbook location - please specify on the commandline with SKETCHBOOK=<path>.  Stop." And I couldn't figure to set a path for sketchbook, though I tried setting up the path used in Arduplane IDE.

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Arunabha Bhattacharya February 25, 2016 at 6:24am

Hi I've added the line to .bashrc as specified in the new page at http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/sitl-native-on-windows/

Now when I cd in ardupilot/ArduCopter and then try running

make sitl -j4, I'm getting the same SKETCHBOOK not found error.

I cloned it off GitHub and have followed the instructions so far as given. I also didn't understand where to check for space in the directories as I didn't find any.

I have no idea what to do and any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
Nizobe June 11, 2014 at 9:58am

I'm getting the same sketchbook error, except it happens no matter what I try and make. Anybody got an idea?
- Anand S. Biradar > Nizobe June 13, 2014 at 2:16pm
  
  Hi Nizobe,
  
  I couldn't solve that but I stopped using that tutorial. Instead I started using the newer tutorial released by them ( http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/setting-up-sitl-on-windows/#Setting_u... ). I was able to perform the simulations successfully.
  
  Which tutorial are you following ?
  - Nizobe > Anand S. Biradar June 13, 2014 at 4:49pm
    
    Hi Anand,
    
    I'm following the guides from this page http://dev.ardupilot.com/ . From the section "Getting Started With the Code" from the beginning up til Editing with Eclipse. And then I tried the EZ walkthroughs as well. No luck :/
    
    I'm trying to modify the actual firmware for custom use so SITL is a bit down the road for me.
    - Anand S. Biradar > Nizobe August 11, 2014 at 12:40pm
      
      Hi Nizobe,
      
      Sorry It skipped out of mind to reply earlier.
      
      Are you trying to setup the the SITL or something else ?
      - Nizobe > Anand S. Biradar August 15, 2014 at 11:03pm
        
        No, just the code itself off GitHub. I discovered the issue was a path to my repos that had spaces in it. This didn't play nice at build time. I solved it by moving my repos elsewhere on my local machine. Thanks anyway!
        
        gjw > Nizobe October 6, 2015 at 12:43pm
        
        A year later... I just hit the same issue and removing the spaces from the directory name fixed it. Thanks for the hint!

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