NLSR Installation Instructions

Prerequisites

• ndn-cxx library and its requirements:

     libcrypto
     libsqlite3
     libcrypto++
     pkg-config
     Boost libraries (>= 1.48)
     OSX Security framework (on OSX platform only)
  

  Refer to Getting started with ndn-cxx -for detailed installation instructions of the library.

• NFD and its requirements:

  Refer to Getting started with NFD -for detailed installation and running instruction.

• log4cxx library

   On linux variants
  
       sudo apt-get install liblog4cxx10-dev
  
   On Mac OSx
  
       sudo port install log4cxx
  

• protobuf

  On Mac OSx
  
       sudo port install protobuf-cpp
  
  On linux variants
  
       sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
  

Build

The following commands should be used to build NLSR:

./waf configure
./waf
sudo ./waf install

Refer to ./waf --help for more options that can be used during configure stage and how to properly configure and run NLSR.

If your pkgconfig path is not set properly you can do following before running ./waf configure

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
or
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/pkgconfig/in/your/machine