[Ns-developers] Cygwin 1.7 complilation errors

[Tom Henderson]

On 2/8/10 3:29 PM, Sidney Doria wrote:
> Hi Developers,
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1 - As explained in NS Wiki, I must provide a documentation like
> "Agent/SRM" along with PUMA protocol, but in which format? Latex?
> HTML? Word DOC? Is there a template file?

There was some discussion (now a few years back) about moving the (now 
outdated) manual to the wiki.  However, it seems that the format of the 
documentation was not really the blocker to the documentation getting 
updated, but rather that people didn't have cycles to devote to it. 
Meanwhile, some new code (the 802.11Ext models) had Latex documentation 
added.

If you contribute Latex documentation (by cloning/modifying an existing 
file and adding it to everything.tex), it can be posted at this site:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/index.html
I don't care strongly where you decide to locate it other than making it 
known somehow to users where it is maintained.

>
> I'm trying to help people here with these efforts:
>
> First I would like to integrate PUMA protocol in NS-2 and NS-3;
> Recently I post new DCCP patches (for NS-2.34 and NS-2.35) to
> developers list and to Wiki. This is a path to also integrate DCCP in
> NS-2 and NS-3;
> Finally I can also update the MAODV code to NS-2.35 and NS-3 in a near future.
>
> 2 -  But I'm facing a (common) problem and maybe you might help me. At
> this moment there's no Cygwin version able to compile the available
> NS-2 versions. Even "Legacy" Setup doesn't work with NS-2.33 or
> NS-2.34 anymore.
>
> Can anybody please pack a functional Cygwin distribution (setup.exe
> and source files) and put it on a site to download?

I was able to get allinone packages installed on Cygwin < 1.7.1, 
including the current release candidate.  Cygwin seems to be supporting 
1.5.x versions through the setup-legacy.exe program; see:
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html

- Tom