a strange error while installing .sh files; im in hurry please help

[stallman3738]

Hello
I am trying to install SIMCAN software which is a Distributed System Simulator, I also installed all its dependencies.
the following files are in this software :
build.sh
build_inet.sh
build_lam.sh
build_omnet
build_simcan.sh
enviroment.sh
parse_var.awk
SIMCAN_exe.sh

and some other folders.
when I type :
sh ./*.sh
or when I try this for any of the files I will get the following error :

Usage : file_name.sh main_dir
or
Usage : file_name.sh main_dir [all | clean]

what is main_dir ?

besides that this software needs omnet software which is a kind of framework for SIMCAN, I also installed this.

Thank you

[rcgreen]

Usage : file_name.sh main_dir

A usage message isn't really an error.
It is an instruction telling you how to invoke the program.
In this case, there is an argument you must supply when you
run the sh file. This argument is "main_dir".
It is probably a directory name you must name.

Is there a README file somewhere with this software, telling
you what to do?

[stallman3738]

A usage message isn't really an error.
It is an instruction telling you how to invoke the program.
In this case, there is an argument you must supply when you
run the sh file. This argument is "main_dir".
It is probably a directory name you must name.

Is there a README file somewhere with this software, telling
you what to do?

No unfortunately, SIMCAN software is produced this year and this is totally new. I also googled about this error but nothing.

[drl]

Hi.

As rcgreen wrote, the message is coming from the top of the SIMCAN script, telling you that it wants 2 parameters. It might be useful to look over the script in detail to see what it might want those directories to be.

It looks like SIMCAN is a wrapper around omnetpp-3.4b2. There are more than 100 README files under that directory.

It would have been best if the person who staged the project to sourceforge had included some documentation on SIMCAN, but I didn't see any.

I suggest looking over the those readme files to see how SIMCAN might be calling omnetpp.

There is another web page at http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~simcan/index.html

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[stallman3738]

Thank you very much for your answer I followed that URL and I also downloaded SIMCAN again but there was no README file or any thing that might help us, and the same message reported .