[Ns-developers] user-space code integration update

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:13 -0400, Raj Bhattacharjea wrote:

> When this branch is eventually merged into ns-3-dev, if we ship this
> type of "example", we need to identify a different place to put this
> kind of code, since it uses native system/socket APIs, and is in fact
> not an ns-3 example at all, but a sockets programming example.
> Perhaps an examples sub-directory with an appropriate name could be
> chosen in the future.

sure.

> > This code will not work on win32 or osx and I have no plans to add
> the
> > code needed to make it work there (patches welcome, though). It
> could be
> > made to work on solaris and, more generally, any reasonable elf unix
> > system (I suspect it won't work on aix) but, clearly, my main target
> is
> > linux elf x86 and x86-64.
> 
> AFAIK we've never stated what ns-3's supported platforms should be,
> only what it works on now.  Since our stated "supported" platforms in
> the README include cygwin and Mac OS X at present, it'd be great to
> have the binary-loader code work for these eventually.  Do you foresee
> any insurmountable hurdles to making this kind of binary-loader and
> real code integration for these other systems?

I have no idea how mach-o or pecoff will deal with this kind of trick
and I don't plan to spend time on them. Patches are welcome though.

regards,
Mathieu