ns-3 Installation Guide

This is the ns-3 Installation Guide. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is organized as follows:

• Several guides that are version controlled for each release (the latest release) and development tree:

  • Tutorial

  • Installation Guide (this document)

  • Manual

  • Model Library

  • Contributing Guide

• ns-3 Doxygen: Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator

• ns-3 wiki

This document is written in reStructuredText for Sphinx and is maintained in the doc/installation directory of ns-3’s source code. Source file column width is 100 columns.

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1. Software organization
  • 1.2. Document organization
• 2. Quick Start
  • 2.1. Prerequisites
  • 2.2. Download
  • 2.3. Building and testing ns-3
  • 2.4. Installing ns-3
• 3. System Prerequisites
  • 3.1. Requirements
  • 3.2. Recommended
  • 3.3. Optional
• 4. Linux
  • 4.1. Requirements
  • 4.2. Recommended
  • 4.3. Optional
  • 4.4. Caveats and troubleshooting
• 5. macOS
  • 5.1. Requirements
  • 5.2. Recommended
  • 5.3. Optional
  • 5.4. Caveats and troubleshooting
• 6. Windows
  • 6.1. Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • 6.2. Windows 10 package prerequisites
  • 6.3. Windows 10 Docker container
  • 6.4. Windows 10 Vagrant
• 7. Installing Bake