Re: [ns] Binaries for TCL/TK?

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

>I've spent a couple days trying to install ns all-in-one and then taking
>the piecemeal approach.  In both cases, the installation doesn't get
>past compiling TCL and TK.  The operating system is SunOS 5.8 and the
>gcc version is 2.7.2.2.
>
>I have tried configuring with and without the --enable-gcc switch and
>either way a makefile is generated.  There are different errors in
>either case, but both run into errors.
>
>I would settle for a pre-compiled version of the ns files (like you have
>for windows, but that one is out of date for the mobile studies I am
>interested in doing).  Is this possible?

We don't have any solaris 8 machines here...

If your compilation is hung up on tcltk-8.0.3, you could try getting
tcltk-8.3 which (I presume) works with newer solaris boxes.

You'll need current (snapshot) versions of tclcl and ns to pass all
the test suites with tcl-8.3, though.

   -John Heidemann