NFD: NDN Forwarding Daemon

Prerequisites

• ndn-cpp-dev library and its requirements:

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

  Refer to https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cpp-dev/blob/master/INSTALL.md for detailed installation instructions.

• libpcap

  Comes with base on OS X 10.8 and 10.9:

  On Ubuntu >= 12.04:

    sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev
  

To build manpages and API documentation:

• doxygen

• graphviz

• python-sphinx

  On OS X 10.8 and 10.9 with macports:

    sudo port install doxygen graphviz py27-sphinx sphinx_select
    sudo port select sphinx py27-sphinx
  

  On Ubuntu >= 12.04:

    sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz python-sphinx
  

Build

The following commands should be used to build NFD:

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

Refer to README.md file for more options that can be used during configure stage and how to properly configure and run NFD.

In some configurations, configuration step may require small modification. For example, on OSX that uses macports (correct the path if macports was not installed in the default path /opt/local):

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
./waf configure
./waf
sudo ./waf install

On some Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora 20):

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
./waf configure
./waf
sudo ./waf install

Building API documentation

The following commands can be used to build API documentation in build/docs/doxygen

./waf doxygen

Note that manpages are automatically created and installed during the normal build process (e.g., during ./waf and ./waf install), if python-sphinx module is detected during ./waf configure stage. By default, manpages are installed into ${PREFIX}/share/man (where default value for PREFIX is /usr/local). This location can be changed during ./waf configure stage using --prefix, --datarootdir, or --mandir options.

For more details, refer to ./waf --help.

Additional documentation in build/docs can be built using (requires python-sphinx package)

./waf sphinx