How to build RapidNet?

Question: How to build RapidNet?

Answer: To build RapidNet you need to install a few pre-requisite libraries. Follow these steps:

• Installing pre-requisites for RapidNet:
  • GNU g++ 4.3.2 or later
  • Flex 2.5
  • GNU Bison 2.3
  • OpenSSL Development Library
  • The GNU MP Bignum Library or GMP
• Download RapidNet from the downloads page.
• Extract the contents and run bash ./build.sh to build
• Run ./rapidnet/tests/testall to run ns-3 and RapidNet unit test-cases.

To install and run the RapidNet visualizer, follow these steps:

• Installing pre-requisites for RapidNet visualizer:
  • Install PyGtk
  • Install Matplotlib
  • Install PyGtkCodeBuffer from here.
  • Install Gmpy - GMP for Python
• Download RapidNet visualizer from the downloads page.
• Extract and run ./runner.py to launch the visualizer.