Re: Installation of ns

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:33:50 GMT, Mr Kashinath Basu wrote: 
>I am a PhD student and I am planning to do some simulation using
>ns(under Solaris). I have looked at the Berkeley ns download page and I
>have downloaded all the basic components required to run ns. I am still
>a bit confused regarding the steps in ns and Tcl/Tk installation.The
>page suggests to install TclCl and then ns. But I got some questions. If
>you can kindly answer them, I will be very grateful.
>
>1) When should I install Tcl/Tk. Should it be before or after
>installing  TclCl & ns?
>
>2) What should be the steps in installing Tcl, Tk and Otcl? I saw the
>Otcl installation Readme file and it requires TCl/Tk source file. Hence
>I feel that Tcl/Tk cannot be installed before Otcl since Otcl requires
>the source file of Tcl/Tk and not the compiled file. I will be very
>grateful if you can tell me the order in which these files should be
>installed.

As the ns-build web page says:

	Since the components depend on each other, you should build them in
	the listed order.
   
>3)I have got a binary version of Tcl/Tk. Can I use it to build OTcl?

This should be documented in the otcl README, but it's not.  You need
tclInt.h which is only included in the tcl sources in most
distributions.

   -John Heidemann