ndn-tools Build Instructions

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

Prerequisites

Building ndn-tools requires ndn-cxx to be installed.
Please see Getting Started with ndn-cxx
on how to install ndn-cxx.
Note: if you have installed ndn-cxx from a binary package, please make sure development headers are installed (if using Ubuntu PPA, ndn-cxx-dev package is needed).

Any operating system and compiler supported by ndn-cxx are supported by ndn-tools.

Build Steps

Waf meta build system is used by ndn-tools.

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

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

To uninstall ndn-tools:

sudo ./waf uninstall