RE: installing ns on win95

["Matthew Marchant" <matmar@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hello Ling,

	Thank you very much for taking interest in my installation problem
on win95.  I do agree that ns for the moment is better on an environment
like Linux.  However, the benefits of VC++ on win95 are important for
development of ns extensions..

	Unfortunately I have not been successful in installing ns on win95
yet.  I tried your makefiles and they don't fix my problem.
	I get the following error:  

NMAKE :  fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'tcl2c++.o'
Stop.

	Error U1073 is a targetname error.  Either the target does not exist
or there is no command to execute or inference the rule to apply.  Here,
there is most likely a problem with the command.
	I have a hunch that this problem is caused by NMAKE not recognizing
conf/makefile.win.  Excuse my lack of makefile knowledge but shouldn't this
line read something like:   

!include <d:\ns\tclcl\conf\makefile.win>

Thanks to ns-users in advance,
	
Matthew Marchant
*	E-mail:  matmar@nortelnetworks.com
*	Phone:	(613) 765-5587 (ESN 395)

P.S.
Here is a description of my error: 
NMAKE Fatal Error U1073
don't know how to make 'targetname'
The specified target does not exist, and there is no command to execute or
inference rule to apply.
One of the following may be a solution: 
*	Check the spelling of the target name.

*	If targetname is a pseudotarget, specify it as a target in another
description block.

*	If targetname is a macro invocation, be sure it does not expand to a
null string. 




	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Ling Su [SMTP:sul@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu]
	Sent:	Wednesday, June 09, 1999 12:32 PM
	To:	Marchant, Matthew [CAR:6H34:EXCH]; ns-users
	Cc:	eaq; jvicente; haoboy; Hatko, Wanda [CAR:6H34:EXCH]
	Subject:	Re: installing ns on win95

	Hi, Matthew and other ns users,

	I've ever compiled and installed nsb2.1.3 using VC++5.0 on win95,
	according what I remembered, I struggled for some time. Now several
	updates occurs, ns changed to ns2.1.4, and we usually use VC++6.0,
	platform switches to win98(this is not a big deal actually). This
	morning, in regarding of Matthew's email, I tried it for a while,
the
	modification of makefile.vc and conf/makefile.win is not a problem,
but
	this time I met a compiling problem which seems related to the
template
	defination of "nilist", etc. I did not figure it out right now.  I
just
	attached my makefile and configuration file in the end, for your
	reference, but it doesn't work during compiling. (You might need
modify
	sth. first, I change .cc to .cpp, since VC only consider .cpp as c++
	file. second, you need to modify the directory in makefile.win)

	For the ns on Windows envrionment, it is still under construction, I
	think. I suggest you switch to Linux or FreeBSD, it works pretty
good.
	Although VC can provide us very convenient mothed to edit, even
debug,
	but you must modify a lot something to finish the current
installation.

	As a finaly word, I do think if ns works find in windows
environment,
	for a lot of people, it will be very convenient, but we need
	collabration to make a full modified version. Only in on OS, it
should
	be.

	Regards,
	-Ling
	(P.S. Currently our group is developing a Java-based network
simulator,
	which has the same goal of ns, it is still under construction, I
think
	with some advantages of it(language, model...etc), might bring a lot
of
	conveniences.)
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	> Hello ns-users and others,
	>
	> I am trying to install ns on win95 using VC++ 6.0.  I am having
	> problems running the makefile "makefile.vc" with Nmake.  The
questions
	I
	> have are as follows:
	>
	> Firstly, is it necessary to modify the "makefile.in" file found in
the
	> directory containing source files for tclcl and ns?  When the
	pathnames in
	> "makefile.in" are successfully modified should "makefile.vc" run?
I
	> question whether or not this step is necessary since on the
download
	page
	> for ns it is mentioned that only "makefile.win" in the  "\conf"
	directory
	> should be modified.
	>
	> In what ways do we have to modify the "makefiles", do we only have
	> to change the pathnames or do we have to modify commands?
	>
	> I would greatly appreciate if someone could respond promptly to
this
	> message.  I would also appreciate an attachment of "makefiles"
that I
	could
	> use as a model.
	>
	> Cheers,
	>
	> Matthew Marchant
	> * E-mail:  matmar@nortelnetworks.com
	> * Phone: (613) 765-5587 (ESN 395)
	>
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