V-REP is a great robotics simulator, but it’s been ages since I last used it. I installed the latest version and ran into a few issues. The solutions are below. I’m using VREP 3.5 under Mojava.
1. File permissions
V-REP complains about not being able to find the models. By default the files have an attribute which V-REP doesn’t like. Remove it by going into the V-REP install folder
% sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine *
2. Setting the environment variable
You can hardwire this into your MATLAB code with
>> vrep = VREP('path', '/Applications/V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_5_0_Mac')but if you want to have it default to the correct path you need to set the environment variable so that it will be seen by a launching app. It needs to be set in the system-wide launch environment and that requires
% cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents
% cat > environment.plist
<plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>my.startup</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>sh</string> <string>-c</string> <string>launchctl setenv VREP /Applications/V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_5_0_Mac </string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist>
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% launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist
% launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist
The launchctl lines just need to be done once, the environment will be loaded automatically the next time you login or reboot.