This document describes how to build and install ndn-tools.
Install the ndn-cxx library and its prerequisites. Please see Getting Started with ndn-cxx for how to install ndn-cxx. Note: If you have installed ndn-cxx from a binary package, please make sure development headers are installed (e.g., if using Ubuntu PPA, the libndn-cxx-dev package is needed).
Any operating system and compiler supported by ndn-cxx is supported by ndn-tools.
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
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