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 Mac OS X 10.8 and 10.9:

  On Ubuntu >= 12.04:

    sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev
  

To build API documentation:

• doxygen

  On Mac OS X 10.8 and 10.9 with macports:

    sudo port install doxygen
  

  On Ubuntu >= 12.04:

    sudo apt-get install doxygen
  

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:

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