install
- Microsoft Visual Studio toolchain: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/cplusplus/
  - “Community 2019” known to work
  - why?
    - needed because since Python 3.4, Python extension needs to be compiled with MSVC compiler
- MinGW
  - why?
    - MinGW generates the right Makefiles when running from command line
    - we can also run cmake from an IDE (then the IDE will provide the generator).
  - download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
  - install only mingw32-base
- cmake
  - https://cmake.org/download/
  - cmake-3.20.0-windows-x86_64.msi known to work
  - have install add CMake to the PATH
- Python
  - python-3.9.2-amd64.exe known to work
  - add Python interpreter to PATH environment variable
  - to be able to run OpenWSN Python extension in gdb, select the following from the advanced installation options
build
- type python setup.py install --user
- build process ends with line Finished processing dependencies for openmote==1.0
- library ends up in C:\Users\twatteyn\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages
  - openmote-1.0-py3.9-win-amd64.egg/
  - easy-install.pth
import library
- verify the following doesn’t fail python -c "import openmote"

MAC OS Specifics

Use homebrew python (brew install python or brew upgrade python) since MAC OSX system Python seems to lead to unstable results (depending on OS version).
Python 3.9.1 known to work
To build (and configure)
- python3 setup.py install --user --prefix=
- python3 setup.py install --user --configure --prefix=
When running into issue where

Issue David:

127.0.0.1 - - [14/Apr/2021 08:57:49] code 400, message Bad request syntax ('\x05\x01\x00')

Installing OpenVisualizer

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