Installing ns-2.35 on Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan (OS X 10.8/10.9/10.10/10.11)


Here i will provide step by step procedure for you to install ns-2.35 on mac OS X 10.8/9/10 which i successfully installed on my mac (fully tested by me and its working)

Credits:- 
  1. Brain Adamson(for great patch) 
  2. Henrique Zelak Leite Bastos for the right help.
  3. APPLE for Mac OS X.(the best a dev. can get)

Step 1. Software Requirements (Pre-requisites).

Step 2. Choose install directory.
  • Place the downloaded ns-allione-2.35.tar.gz file in the location you want to install it. 

Step 3. Extract ns files.

  • Go to location where you have put your downloaded .tar.gz file and run 
  • tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz 

Step 4.  Get into the Directory.
  • Execute  cd ns-allinone-2.35

Step 5. Download Patch.
  • Extract and put these files in ns-allinone-2.35 directory.

Step 6. Execute install command


  • Execute ./install64 (will give paths after completion. Copy them)

Step 7. Save Paths.
  • So now we save the paths returned by successful execution of install command.
  • This step is the most critical step as requires proper attention.
  • Come back to your user/home directory and run
  • touch ~/.bash_profile (if you don't have a bash_profile file in your home directory).
  • open ~/.bash_profile (opens bash_profile file in textEdit).
  • Now add paths like 
export PATH=$PATH:path1:path2:path3 (paths are separated by colon)
  • similarly add LD Library paths like 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:path1:path2 (paths are separated by colon)
  • and add paths also for TCL Library
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIBRARY:path
  • Save and Exit.
  • Now run source ~/.bash_profile.
  • Type nam and .... Bingo!!! if you see the nam window (installation successful !!!)
or 
  • else recheck 7th step again as most mistakes are done during this step only (i.e. saving the paths correctly).
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Comments

Harshil said…
Hi Anand. Good Job dude. I have been able to install it completely and yet when I try to execute a tcl file it says "bash: ns: command not found". Can you delve deeper into this problem ? Maybe it has something to do with the PATH setting. I would be very thankful for a detailed description for PATH setting.
22 November 2013 at 07:53
SalZahranii said…
when I executed ./instal, 2 errors occur. one is that the file Xos.h is not found, and the other is that the method main in the file itm.c should have return value. I tried to fix them both but the errors still there.
24 November 2013 at 21:48
Amir H KArimi N said…
template struct hash;
^
10 warnings and 2 errors generated.
make: *** [mdart/mdart_adp.o] Error 1
Ns make failed!
See http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html for problems
bash-3.2# sudo nano /etc/paths
bash-3.2#

Hi .. this is the error which i have got after going through all you mentioned steps..
what shall i do now?
29 July 2014 at 14:20
Unknown said…
When I try to install I get the following errors:

//error 1
mdart/mdart_adp.cc:108:21: error: reference to 'hash' is ambiguous
nsaddr_t dstAdd_ = hash(reqId);

//error 2
mdart/mdart_adp.cc:396:21: error: reference to 'hash' is ambiguous
nsaddr_t dstAdd_ = hash(mdart_->id_);
6 August 2014 at 10:54
Unknown said…
I got the same erro "mdart/mdart_adp.cc:108:21: error: reference to 'hash' is ambiguous"
Try this:
https://github.com/aemreunal/ns-allinone-2.35-Mac-OS-10.9-install-patch

It worked by me.
18 September 2014 at 02:14
Anand Kumar said…
updated the blog and thanks a lot bro....
19 September 2014 at 00:00
Anand Kumar said…
updated and its working now... :-)
24 September 2014 at 19:11
Anand Kumar said…
updated and its working now... :-)
24 September 2014 at 19:11
Anand Kumar said…
updated and its working now... :-)
24 September 2014 at 19:12
MiaToretto said…
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/sanjaykumar/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Ns configuration failed! Exiting ...
Please check http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html
for common problems and bug fixes.
17 October 2014 at 17:18
harsha said…
Could you please tell me what will be the password when we give sudo ./install64 command in the terminal?
11 November 2014 at 01:11
Anand Kumar said…
beta tumse na ho payega... hum bata rahein hain .... u dont know even your system password ... u deserve a world cup ... gr8
12 November 2014 at 01:13
Unknown said…
Getting the same error as MiaToretto
14 February 2015 at 12:16
hemang kothari said…
/Users/hemangkothari/ns-allinone-2.35/lib/tk8.5/tk.tcl: wrong # args: should be "::source fileName"
21 February 2015 at 10:30
Unknown said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
10 March 2015 at 18:30
Unknown said…
% nam
nam: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
child process exited abnormally

10 March 2015 at 18:57
Unknown said…
could you please help me?
10 March 2015 at 18:58
Unknown said…
Thanks!!! I was really struggling to do this. Now I success !
21 May 2015 at 17:20
Anonymous said…
Really helpful !
26 May 2015 at 14:57
@ndy said…
Really works
23 June 2015 at 21:58
@ndy said…
I have trying long time install in Yosemite, you really help me.
I want to ask you if I can translate your post in Spanish por my classmate, with the respective reference.
Thanks you
23 June 2015 at 22:00
Anand Kumar said…
use google translate.
29 June 2015 at 10:44
Dhruv Vyas said…
I've written a small script which automates each and every step mentioned over here. (Including installing paths) Here is a github link : https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/ns-install-osx Hope it helps.
15 August 2015 at 16:17
Raghavendra Temkar said…
It's Working, thank u dude. :-)
22 September 2015 at 21:40
Unknown said…
Hi, I've tried installing ns2 on my mac os x 10.8.5. I've hit the ./install86 command and there appeared to be no tcl8.5.10, zlib, sgb, and XGraph-12.2 libraries created. Can you please show me how I can make these?

Thanks,

Nelson
24 October 2015 at 06:40
Anonymous said…
thank man, you really helped me
11 November 2015 at 07:37
Unknown said…
Thanks a lot! I am currently using mac os x Yosemite and this tutorial worked perfectly. Absolutely no problems. :)
18 November 2015 at 01:05
Anonymous said…
Works on El Capitan as well. Thanks a lot!
19 November 2015 at 22:53
Unknown said…
Thanks for saving me a lot of time, almost gave up installing ns2 until I saw this!
25 January 2016 at 22:36
SAM said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
12 February 2016 at 12:40
Anonymous said…
I get this error after step 7.
./install64: line 409: autoconf: command not found
checking whether to use symlinks for manpages... no
checking whether to compress the manpages... no
checking whether to add a package name suffix for the manpages... no
checking for gcc... gcc-4.4
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
tcl8.5.10 configuration failed! Exiting ...
16 February 2016 at 23:24
Anonymous said…
Update:
The error was because I did not logout/restart after installing xQuartz
16 February 2016 at 23:34
Anonymous said…
Works perfectly... Nicely done.
2 March 2016 at 03:22
Unknown said…
Hi Anand Kumar
When I run ./install64, I dnt get any paths. Could you please help me.
I get following:

Last login: Thu Mar 3 13:00:38 on ttys002
Rahuls-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Rahul$ /Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64 ; exit;
============================================================
* Testing for Darwin (OS X) environment
============================================================
Darwin detected
============================================================
* Testing for Cygwin environment
============================================================
Cygwin not detected, proceeding with regular install.
============================================================
* Testing for FreeBSD environment
============================================================
FreeBSD not detected
============================================================
* Build XGraph-12.2
============================================================
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 270: cd: ./xgraph-12.2: No such file or directory
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 271: ./configure: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Can not create xgraph; But xgraph is an optional package, continuing...
============================================================
* Build CWeb
============================================================
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 290: cd: ./cweb: No such file or directory
ns-allinone unable to install cweb for you. Please install it manually. cweb is used by sgb to create sgblibrary needed by scenario-generator. But this will not affect the use of ns as such, so continue..
============================================================
* Build Stanford GraphBase
============================================================
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 321: cd: ./sgb: No such file or directory
Unable to create sgb library. This library is used by gt-itm and so for scenario generators. If you already have sgblib (possible if you are on solaris,sunos or freebsd platforms) you may still be able to run gt-itm. so continuing..
============================================================
* Build GT-ITM
============================================================
sgb lib not found. gt-itm & sgb2ns could not be installed. Continuing..
============================================================
* Build zlib
============================================================
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 380: cd: ./zlib-1.2.3: No such file or directory
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 382: ./configure: No such file or directory
Zlib-1.2.3 configuration failed, but it's optional, so continuing ...
============================================================
* Build tcl8.5.10
============================================================
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 402: cd: ./tcl8.5.10/unix: No such file or directory
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 409: autoconf: command not found
/Users/Rahul/Documents/ns/ns-allinone-2.35/install64: line 410: ./configure: No such file or directory
tcl8.5.10 configuration failed! Exiting ...
Tcl is not part of the ns project. Please see www.Scriptics.com
to see if they have a fix for your platform.
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

4 March 2016 at 02:40
Anand Kumar said…
check step one, specially for x11 libraries
7 March 2016 at 19:33
Anand Kumar said…
and also logout and login back.
7 March 2016 at 19:34
Anonymous said…
Thank you for providing such great informaiton. You save me.
8 March 2016 at 16:05
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