Installing old NS2 version (ns-allinone-2.1b6a) on RedHat 8.0

NS2 compiles smoothly on gcc 2.95.x systems. However most linux distributions are now bundled with gcc 3.x which causes some compilation errors. The current NS2 allinone package is already available in a patched version for gcc3.2 (ns-allinone-2.1b9a-gcc32.tar.gz).

In order to use add-on software for older ns2 releases (in particular ns-allinone-2.1b6a), I applied the necessary changes to the source to make it compile on my RedHat 8.0 machine.

gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
kernel: 2.4.18-24.8.0

The following steps desrcribe the installation procedure.
Special thanks go to Somnuk Puangpronpitag and Igor Sobrado for their web page and news contribution, respectively.

My patched version of the source code can also be downloaded here (ns-allinone-2.1b6-gcc32.tar.gz).

unpacked http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/ns-allinone-2.1b6a.tar.gz
started ./install > install.log 2>&1
"abort" error in ./tclcl-1.0b9/tracedvar.cc ==> applied patch ( tracedvar.patch )
tfrc.h:112: friend declaration requires class-key, i.e. `friend class ==> applied patch ( tfrc_h.patch )
good reference at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nuk/Research/Log/ !!
tcp-rbp.cc:73: friend declaration requires class-key, i.e. `friend class RBPVegasPaceTimer' => added word "class" after friend

worked through: [NS] changes required to build NS with gcc 3.x and added class identifier

file           line  recommended change
-------------  ----  ----------------------------------------------
tfrc.h         116   friend class TfrcSendTimer;
tfrc.h         117   friend class TfrcNoFeedbackTimer;
tcp-rbp.cc     72    friend class RBPVegasPaceTimer;
tcp-rbp.cc     234   friend class RBPRenoPaceTimer;
tcp-full.h     131   friend class ReassemblyQueue;
sfq.cc         52    friend class SFQ;
drr.cc         37    friend class DRR;
snoop.h        114   friend class SnoopRxmitHandler;
snoop.h        115   friend class SnoopPersistHandler;
rxmit_queue.h  61    friend class ReXmitQ;
tfrc-sink.h    74    friend class TfrcNackTimer;

utils.h:110: declaration of C function `const char* strcasestr (see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nuk/Research/Log/ point 3. )

Edit ~ns-allinone-2.1b6/ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/webtrace-conv/ucb/utils.cc and ~ns-allinone-2.1b6/ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/webtrace-conv/ucb/utils.h
Change strcasestr function name to 'strcasestr1'

casting error in ./ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/webtrace-conv/ucb/utils.cc ==> applied patch ( utils.cc.patch )
edriver error in ./gt-itm/src/Makefile ==> applied patch ( gtMakefile.patch )
error in ./ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/webtrace-conv/dec/proxytrace.cc ==> applied patch ( proxytrace.cc.patch )
error in ./ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/webtrace-conv/dec/my-endian.cc ==> applied patch ( my-endian.cc.patch )
Nam make failed! (xor/Xor problem in ./nam-1.0a8/editview.cc and ./nam-1.0a8/paint.h) ==> applied patch ( editview.cc.patch and paint.h.patch )
error in ./nam-1.0a8/nam_stream.cc ==> applied patch ( nam_stream.cc.patch )
added "class" in nam / queue.h
setdest.o: In function `init()':
setdest.o(.text+0x76): undefined reference to `operator new[](unsigned)'
=> stdc++ library missing ! => add "-lstdc++" in Makefile
(vim ~/ns-allinone-2.1b6/ns-2.1b6/indep-utils/cmu-scen-gen/setdest/Makefile.in " LIBS = @V_LIB@ -lm @LIBS@ -lstdc++ "

Thomas Martin Knoll

Saturday 04th 2012f February 2012 - 14:19:29