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The installation instructions included in this page are not meant to be comprehensive and represent only one of the many ways of getting ns-3 to build in a Snow Leopard Mac OS X system. Commands (>>) should be run from a Terminal window. Mac OS X does not support all of the features of ns-3, but core functionality is provided. Check http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Installation for further details on what is and what is not supported on Mac OS X.
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Please visit the macOS installation wiki page:
  
'''1) Install XCode'''
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https://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation#macOS
 
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You will find XCode in the Mac OS X Install DVD that came with your Mac. Alternatively, you can download the most recent version of XCode from the Apple Developer Connection website (http://developer.apple.com/mac/). The XCode development environment includes the gcc compiler and critical libraries required to build applications to be run in Mac OS X.
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'''2) Install Fink'''
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2.1) Download Fink source release version 0.29.10 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fink/fink-0.29.10.tar.gz
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2.2) Extract the contents of the file and enter open up the Terminal in the resulting folder.
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2.3) Install Fink (during the interactive installation process, select the 32 bit installation).
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>> ./bootstrap
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2.4) Execute a script in order to setup the environment variables for Fink.
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>> /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh (assuming a default install folder).
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2.5) Install updated packages, if available.
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>> fink selfupdate
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'''3) Install Mercurial'''
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Download and install the Mercurial 1.4.2 binary package from http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download
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'''4) Download source code'''
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>> hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-allinone
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>> cd ns-3-allinone
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>> ./download.py
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'''5) Build the local repository'''
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>> ./build.py
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'''6) Test the installation'''
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>> cd ns-3-dev
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>> ./test.py
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Latest revision as of 00:29, 2 April 2021

Please visit the macOS installation wiki page:

https://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation#macOS