This page summarizes what I did to get a functional ndnSIM and a development environment for the lab.

Requirements

All that is required is a machine running Debian or a Debian clone distribution. The instructions here have been used successfully on Debian 7.4. Ubuntu 13.10 has also been successfully tried, but requires particular settings due to the default installation of gcc 4.8.

I am a fan of Codeblocks as a C/C++ IDE, so before installing the dependencies I add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable wheezy release

deb-src http://apt.jenslody.de/stable wheezy release

Then you update the apt-get data:

# apt-get update

Install the new keys:

# apt-get install jens-lody-debian-keyring

Another popular IDE is the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers. This wiki also contains a small tutorial to enable Eclipse to make ns-3 development easier.

The dependencies, on Debian, to build ndnSIM and nsclick can be resolved with the following command lines:

# apt-get install git libboost-all-dev build-essential subversion python-dev python-pygraphviz python-gnomedesktop python-kiwi python-pygoocanvas python-gnome2 python-rsvg ipython flex bison valgrind doxygen libxml2 libxml2-dev gtk+2.0 gsl-bin libgsl0ldbl libgsl0-dev screen libsqlite3-dev python-pygccxml wx-common cscope-el libgnomeprintui2.2-0 gawk

If you also want Code::Blocks, the following command can be used:

# apt-get install codeblocks codeblocks-contrib 

The dependencies, on Ubuntu, to build ndnSIM and nsclick can be resolved with the following command lines:

# apt-get install git libboost-all-dev build-essential subversion python-dev python-pygraphviz python-gnome2-desktop-dev python-kiwi python-pygoocanvas python-gnome2 python-rsvg ipython flex bison valgrind doxygen libxml2 libxml2-dev gtk+2.0 gsl-bin libgsl0ldbl libgsl0-dev screen libsqlite3-dev python-pygccxml wx-common cscope-el gawk

Take into account that the installation of these packages will easily require about 1GB of hard drive space.

Once all the packages are installed, we can pull the sources for click and ndnSIM. First we create a directory in which to store things:

# mkdir ndnSIM

We assume that the complete path of the directory we just created is /root/ndnSIM. Please adjust this path to whatever you are using when following the instructions below.

Installation

Click

We proceed to pull the source code for click:

# cd ndnSIM; git clone git://github.com/kohler/click.git

Now we configure the source:

# cd click; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-userlevel --disable-linuxmodule --enable-nsclick

Finally we compile and install:

# make && make install

ndnSIM

We proceed to pull the source code for ndnSIM:

# cd ndnSIM; git clone git://github.com/cawka/ns-3-dev-ndnSIM.git ns-3
# git clone git://github.com/cawka/pybindgen.git pybindgen
# git clone git://github.com/NDN-Routing/ndnSIM.git ns-3/src/ndnSIM

Now we configure the source:

# cd ns-3; ./waf configure -d optimized --prefix=/usr --enable-tests --enable-examples

The configuration should find all the required libraries with the notable exceptions of BRITE and MPI. Next we compile:

# ./waf

Finally we install:

# ./waf install