Robot code simulation on Windows box with Windriver

[gwlund]

I was wondering if anyone had advice on the best way to develop, build, and run a program locally on a computer without downloading the program to the cRIO. Obviously the WPILibs are not setup to work without the supporting hardware resources but I wanted to setup a simulation environment so concurrent development can happen on the project. I can easily override the WPILib classes to put a debug shim layer class in between the libs and our custom code.

Windriver has a VxWorks simulator that appears to be missing from the FIRST build. Another option would be to compile for a native build using gnu toolchain.

Wanted to know if there was some knowledge out there before I plowed my own road.