[ns] a patch speeding ns-allinone-2.1b8 installation on Windows

["Zhou, Zhi Qiang (Roger)" <zroger@lucent.com>]

Hi there,

 

This patch is for anyone who want to save the installation time
of ns-allinone-2.1b8 on Microsoft Windows.

 

The detail info is as follows and in the attached.

 

enjoy,

 

zroger

 

 

 

1. Introduction
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This patch is used for compiling "ns-allinone-2.1.b8" on Windows platform
with VC++6.0. This patch does not contain the part to compile NAM
in "ns-allinone-2.1b8" package.

 

This patch is based on:
 ns-allinone-2.1b8.tar.gz
 ns-src-2.1b8a-win.tar.gz

 

2. Changes
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* Add the root file makefile.vc
* Modify some makefiles to make the rebuilding process
  computer_and_directory independent.

 

2. MANIFEST
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$(root)/  - the root directory of ns-allinone-2.1b8,
     also the directory which contains this file.

 

$(root)/makefile.vc - the root makefile for windows platform
$(root)/allinone.bat   - used by $(root)/makefile.vc
$(root)/README.ns-allinone-2.1b8_makefile_patch - this file

 

$(root)/tcl8.3.2/win/makefile.vc

 

$(root)/tk8.3.2/win/makefile.vc

 

$(root)/otcl-1.0a7/makefile.vc

 

$(root)/tclcl-1.0b11/conf/makefile.win

 

$(root)/ns-2.1b8a-win/conf/makefile.win
$(root)/ns-2.1b8a-win/makefile.vc

 

2. Installation
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* Extract the ns-2.1b8a-win package to ns-allinone-2.1b8 root directory.

 

  cd ns-allinone-2.1b8/
  tar xzvf ../ns-src-2.1b8-win.tar.gz

 

* Extract this patch

 

  cd ns-allinone-2.1b8/
  tar xzvf ../ns-allinone-2.1b8-makefile-patch.tar.gz

 

* Compiling

 

  cd ns-allinone-2.1b8/
  nmake -f makefile.vc cleanall
  nmake -f makefile.vc

 

 

ns-allinone-2.1b8-makefile-patch.tar.gz