When installing Artery on Ubuntu, building INET throws an unusual Error - omnet++

Question

I am currently setting up a new PC with Omnet++, Veins and Artery for simulating ITS-G5 protocol. After calling make inet in the root directory of Artery I get the following Error Message:
$ make inet
cd extern/inet; python inet_featuretool disable packetdrill SCTP SCTP_examples
Disabling feature(s): packetdrill, SCTP_examples, SCTP
opp_featuretool: .oppfeaturestate file updated.
opp_featuretool: .nedexclusions file updated.
make -C extern/inet makefiles
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/wiconlab/Car2x/artery-master/extern/inet'
Creating Makefile in /home/wiconlab/Car2x/artery-master/extern/inet/src...
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/wiconlab/Car2x/artery-master/extern/inet'
make -C extern/inet/src
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/wiconlab/Car2x/artery-master/extern/inet/src'
*** COMPILING with:
g++ -c -std=c++11 -O3 -march=native -mtune=native -DNDEBUG=1 -MMD -MP -MF .d -fPIC -fno-stack-protector -DHAVE_SWAPCONTEXT -DWITH_MPI -DXMLPARSER=libxml -DPREFER_QTENV -DWITH_QTENV -DWITH_TKENV -DWITH_PARSIM -DWITH_NETBUILDER -DWITH_OSG -DWITH_OSGEARTH -Wno-overloaded-virtual -include inet/common/precompiled.h -I. -I/home/wiconlab/Car2x/omnetpp-5.2/include
*** LINKING with:
g++ -shared -fPIC -o ../out/gcc-release/src/libINET.so -Wl,--no-as-needed -Wl,--whole-archive -Wl,--no-whole-archive -loppenvir -loppsim -ldl -lstdc++ -lOpenThreads -losg -losgText -losgDB -losgEarth -losgEarthUtil -Wl,-rpath,/home/wiconlab/Car2x/omnetpp-5.2/lib -Wl,-rpath,/lib -Wl,-rpath,. -L/home/wiconlab/Car2x/omnetpp-5.2/lib
Building...
Creating precompiled header for gcc...
MSGC: inet/applications/base/ApplicationPacket.msg
... *ABBREVIATED FOR CLARITY*
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc: In member function ‘virtual void inet::RoutingTableRecorder::recordInterfaceChange(omnetpp::cModule*, const inet::InterfaceEntry*, omnetpp::simsignal_t)’:
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:207:15: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT’
#define LL INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT // for eventnumber_t
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:296:37: note: in expansion of macro ‘LL’
fprintf(routingLogFile, "%s %" LL "d %s %d %s %s\n",
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:303:13: warning: spurious trailing ‘%’ in format [-Wformat=]
);
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:303:13: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc: In member function ‘virtual void inet::RoutingTableRecorder::recordRouteChange(omnetpp::cModule*, const inet::IRoute*, omnetpp::simsignal_t)’:
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:207:15: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT’
#define LL INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT // for eventnumber_t
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:323:36: note: in expansion of macro ‘LL’
fprintf(routingLogFile, "%s %" LL "d %s %d %s %s %d %s\n",
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:332:13: warning: spurious trailing ‘%’ in format [-Wformat=]
);
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:332:13: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
Makefile:1134: recipe for target '../out/gcc-release/src/inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.o' failed
make[1]: *** [../out/gcc-release/src/inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/wiconlab/Car2x/artery-master/extern/inet/src'
Makefile:21: recipe for target 'inet' failed
make: *** [inet] Error 2
I am using an up to date Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, compiling with cmake 3.9.6, building Veins and Vanetza worked without issue. Omnet++ Version is 5.2. The code lines, the Error is referring to are:
203 namespace inet {
204
205 Define_Module(RoutingTableRecorder);
206
207 #define LL INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT // for eventnumber_t
However expecting a ")" before line 207 makes no sense to me.
Also, this Error did not appear when building Artery on a different System (Same OS) a few weeks earlier. Using an earlier revision of the source had no effect either.

Answer 1

You are using OMNeT++ 5.2.
This seems to be the problem because the API has changed slightly.
INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT isn't available anymore in OMNeT++ 5.2.
Changing back to OMNeT++ Version 5.1 should resolve your error!

Answer 2

fprintf(routingLogFile, "%s %" LL "d %s %d %s %s %d %s\n",
^
inet/networklayer/ipv4/RoutingTableRecorder.cc:332:13: warning: spurious trailing ‘%’ in format [-Wformat=]
);
This is just a simple syntax error. Go through the path Inet/src/inet/networlayer/ipv4/ and open the RoutingTableRecord.cc file and edit at "fprintf(routingLogFile, "%s %" LL "d %s %d %s %s %d %s\n", " line and remove LL including the double quotes that is around the LL. There are two of them with in this C code. So make sure they are both corrected like the following line: fprintf(routingLogFile, "%s %d %s %d %s %s %d %s\n", .
You might also need to comment out #define LL INT64_PRINTF_FORMAT // for eventnumber_t at line number around 270.
Then save and Clean only the inet project. Then Build also only the inet project.