Installation of NS-2 on Windows

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Installation of NS-2on Windows

• George Lee

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What is needed?

• O.S.
• Unix (FreeBSD, Linux, SunOS, Solaris)
• Windows
• The allinone package requires about 250MB of disk
  space to build.
• Compiler
• Microsoft VC

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How do I get the software? (1)

• There are two ways to build ns
• from all the pieces
• Tcl release 8.3.2 (required component)
• Tk release 8.3.2 (required component)
• Otcl release 1.0a7 (required component)
• TclCL release 1.0b11 (required component)
• Ns release 2.1b8a (required component)
• Nam release 1.0a10 (optional component)
• Xgraph version 12 (optional component)
• CWeb version 3.4g (optional component)
• SGB version 1.0 (?) (optional component, builds
  sgblib for all UNIX type platforms)
• Gt-itm gt-itm and sgb2ns 1.1 (optional component)
  
• Zlib version 1.1.3 (optional, but required should
  Nam be used)
• all at once.
• ns-allinone-2.1b8a.tar.gz

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How do I get the software? (2)

• Ns is available both
• by HTTP at http//www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/
• by anonymous FTP at ftp//ftp.isi.edu/nsnam

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BUILDING ON WINDOWS (1)

• Download source current release 2.1b8a
• ns-allinone-2.1b8a.tar.gz
• Create a C\NetSim directory
• Unzip the various files into the C\NetSim
  directory
• Click Overwirte if files with the same name
  occurs (i.e. case sensitive for UNIX, and not for
  Windows)
• All files will be unzipped to C\NetSim\ns-allinon
  e-2.1b8a

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BUILDING ON WINDOWS (2)

• Installing tcl and tk
• Switch to your C\NetSim directory and type
  vcvars32.bat (or download and execute
  setupNS.bat).
• Switch to your tcl directory (tcl8.3.2 for
  ns-2.1b8). 
• Switch to the win directory. file.  Make several
  changes in makefile.vc.

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BUILDING ON WINDOWS (3)

• ROOT ..
• INSTALLDIR c\Progra1\Tcl
• !IF "(MACHINE)" "IA64"
• TOOLS32 c\ia64sdk17
• TOOLS32_rc c\ia64sdk17
• !ELSE
• TOOLS32 c\Progra1\devstudio\vc?
  c\Progra1\micros3\vc98
• TOOLS32_rc c\Progra1\devstudio\sharedide?
  c\Progra1\micros3\common\msdev98
• !ENDIF
• Note Use dir /x to verify where the VC is
  located.

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BUILDING ON WINDOWS (4)

• Compile the tcl source code
• nmake /I /f makefile.vc
• The compiler will show only warning or minor
  errors.
• Install it
• nmake /I /f makefile.vc install
• The TCL files will be generated in C\Program
  Files\Tcl (with three subdirectories bin,
  include, lib)