Required Cygwin Packages for NS2

by Teerawat Issariyakul http://www.ns2ultimate.com

November 2011

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Outline
Introduction Cygwin required packages How do I know? How to install missing packages?

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Introduction

Here is one of the system requirement for NS2 installation

Windows Platform Cygwin 1.7.9 with additional packages: gcc4, gcc4-g++, gzip, make, patch, perl, w32api, libmpfr4, X11

NS 2.35 (full-release)

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How do I know?
That those packages are required? Just run ./install at the ns2 directory and youll see

Checking for gcc4 NO!

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How do I know?
You can continue by entering y But there is no guarantee that your installation will be successful

Do you wish to proceed regardless? [y/N]

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How do I know?
Suppose you enter y You will see that several packages are missing

Checking for gcc4-g++ NO!

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Suggestion

First, keep pressing y.

Write down all missing packages. Well, here is the list: gcc4, gcc4-g++, make, gzip, patch, perl, w32api, X11 Go back to install missing packages using the Cygwin setup wizard.

Upon completion, install NS2 again by executing

>>./install

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Installing missing packages

Search the package name here, e.g., gcc4 Expand package category by clicking +

Click here to install all the optional package

When you are done, hit next

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UNFORTUNATELY, WERE NOT DONE

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Error Again!
This is with the installation of Tcl Even if you installed all required packages, you are still going to see this error!

error: C compiler cannot create executable

See config.log for more details.

Tcl8.5.10 configuration failed! Exiting

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Lets see the file config.log

Location: ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/unix

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by tcl configure 8.5, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was

configure:1785: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:1788: gcc conftest.c >&5 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/cc1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygmpfr-4.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory configure:1791: $? = 1

Here is the problem: cygmpfr-4.dll is not installed.

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Lets fix it!

Go to Cygwin and install a package libmfr4 Then reinstall NS2.

THIS TIME IT SHOULD WORK!!

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For more information about NS 2

Please see this book from Springer

T. Issaraiyakul and E. Hossain, Introduction to Network Simulator NS2, Springer 2009

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