ndn-tools Build Instructions

This document describes how to build and install ndn-tools.

Prerequisites

• Install the ndn-cxx library and its prerequisites. Please see Getting Started with ndn-cxx for instructions. All operating systems and compilers supported by ndn-cxx are also supported by ndn-tools.

  Note: If you have installed ndn-cxx from a binary package, please make sure the development headers are installed (e.g., if using Ubuntu PPA, the libndn-cxx-dev package is needed).

• libpcap

  Comes with the base system on macOS.

  On Ubuntu:

  sudo apt install libpcap-dev
  

  On CentOS and Fedora:

  sudo dnf config-manager --enable powertools  # CentOS only
  sudo dnf install libpcap-devel
  

Build Steps

To configure, compile, and install ndn-tools, type the following commands in ndn-tools source directory:

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

To uninstall:

sudo ./waf uninstall