Install NS2 in Cygwin

How to Install NS2?
How to install NS2 in Cygwin?
How to install NS2 in Windows?
NS2 installation Problems ?
Environmental Variables in NS2


Installation Steps

•   Download your Required NS2 verison HERE
•  Open Cygwin and type "Startxwin.bat" command which will open cygwin server used for running nam and xgraph files.
•  Place your ns-allinone file to your desired location and extract the file using the command   tar "xvfz ns-allinone-(version).tar.gz" (ex: xvfz ns-allinone-2.33.tar.gz) .it will extract all files to folder ns-allinone-(version_no)
• Now specify the folder path in cygwin (ex: cd c:/ns-allinone-2.33/)
• Type ./install
• Generally, the compilation process will cost about 2 hours (depended on your computer).
• You may get Errors like OTcl ,Tcl,Ns-2 build failed due to the problem of cygwin package libraries.,you can solve those by installing Required packages through Internet . the procedure is same as installing cygwin . 

•  Refer to post"INSTALLATION OF CYGWIN ON WINDOWS"
• You can get   help regarding your error HERE

Setting  Environmental Variables

• Edit the file “.bashrc” which is a hidden file in your “home/{username}” folder and insert these sentences:

export NS_HOME=`pwd`/ns-allinone-(ns_version_no)

export PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl(tcl_verison_no)/unix:$NS_HOME/tk(version_no)/unix:$NS_HOME/bin:$PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl(version_no)/unix:$NS_HOME/tk(tk_version_no)/unix:$NS_HOME/otcl-(otcl_version_no):$NS_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export TCL_LIBRARY=$NS_HOME/tcl(tcl_version_no)/library

     EX: (Setting  Environmental Variables for ns-2.27)

    

export NS_HOME=`pwd`/ns-allinone-2.27

export PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/bin:$PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.5/unix:$NS_HOME/otcl-1.8:$NS_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export TCL_LIBRARY=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.5/library

  Testing Ns-2

•   In cygwin go to folder  ~/ns-allinone-(ns2-version_no)/ns-(ns2-version_no)/     ex: ~/ns-allinone-2.33/ns-2.33/
• Type  ns command [ex:  $ ns]
• If Installation is success with out any Error you will get  symbol  %   

Thats it Installation of ns-2 in your system is successfull. 

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