Comments on: Configure NS-2 with Eclipse in Linux

By: hasan türken

hasan türken — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:06:46 +0000

Fatima: Hi, I did as suggested by you. I am confused do i need to put in breakpoints in files myself. I am not sure in which files to place the breakpoints. Additionaly, is there any way i can debug my simulation written in tcl. Thanks VA:F [1.9.12_1141]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)VA:F [1.9.12_1141]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

You should pass your tcl file as argument to ns. Go to debug configurations and under arguments tab, write the name of your .tcl file. With its path of course.

By: Dewa Bayu

Dewa Bayu — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:40:13 +0000

Thanks, I tried it with indigo and it worked fine. But, I tried with Ella way, and I got many error. Are these normal?
I have successed configure eclipse and ns2, but I still don’t understand how to debug with eclipse. I hope you will write articles about it later. Sorry for my english

By: Yunfei

Yunfei — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:24:21 +0000

very nice written, I spent days to make it work on my SUSE until I looked at your post.
Thank you.

By: Fatima

Fatima — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:01:19 +0000

Hi,
I did as suggested by you. I am confused do i need to put in breakpoints in files myself. I am not sure in which files to place the breakpoints.
Additionaly, is there any way i can debug my simulation written in tcl.
Thanks

By: Sudheer

Sudheer — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:25:10 +0000

sara: Hi, I followed all configuration steps but when i want to build ns-2.34 project , i get two following errors : ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘init_misc’ with no type ns_tclsh.cc /ns-2.34 line 30 C/C++ Problem make: *** [ns_tclsh.o] Error 1 ns-2.34 line 0 C/C++ Problem Hope you can provide some help.Thank you VA:F [1.9.10_1130]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)VA:F [1.9.10_1130]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

I had similar issues, it was because of instead of creating a Makefile project I was creating a Project (Default option). See point 4 below 4. Select Project Type as "Makefile" Project -> Empty C++ Project. Toolchains: Linux GCC

By: Pradeepkumar TS

Pradeepkumar TS — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:47:26 +0000

please refer these sites for ns2
http://www.pradeepkumar.org
http://www.nsnam.com

By: Jyothi

Jyothi — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:21:47 +0000

Hi Ella, I tried the two extra changes you suggested. Strange! I am getting many errors while running the make command which are mostly related to declaring the variable types. Did you get those errors too? What will the changes you suggested do? Thanks for the help.

Ella: Ok so here is what I did to make the debug work: I changed the Makefile.in in the ns-2x subdirectory as the following: 1. change CCOPT = @V_CCOPT@ to CCOPT = @V_CCOPT@ -g 2. add -DDEBUG -DNDEBUG to the end of the DEFINE parameter such as: DEFINE = -DTCP_DELAY_BIND_ALL -DNO_TK @V_DEFINE@ @V_DEFINES@ @DEFS@ -DNS_DIFFUSION -DSMAC_NO_SYNC -DCPP_NAMESPACE=@CPP_NAMESPACE@ -DUSE_SINGLE_ADDRESS_SPACE -Drng_test -DDEBUG -DNDEBUG now run “./configure” and then “make clean” and “make” in the same directory. After that go hit the debug button in the eclipse and enjoy what you see! VA:F [1.9.10_1130]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)VA:F [1.9.10_1130]Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:49:28 +0000

Ok so here is what I did to make the debug work:
I changed the Makefile.in in the ns-2x subdirectory as the following:
1. change CCOPT = @V_CCOPT@
to CCOPT = @V_CCOPT@ -g

2. add -DDEBUG -DNDEBUG to the end of the DEFINE parameter such as:
DEFINE = -DTCP_DELAY_BIND_ALL -DNO_TK @V_DEFINE@ @V_DEFINES@ @DEFS@ -DNS_DIFFUSION -DSMAC_NO_SYNC -DCPP_NAMESPACE=@CPP_NAMESPACE@ -DUSE_SINGLE_ADDRESS_SPACE -Drng_test -DDEBUG -DNDEBUG

now run “./configure” and then “make clean” and “make” in the same directory. After that go hit the debug button in the eclipse and enjoy what you see!

By: eskay

eskay — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:11:07 +0000

Thank you, Ella, for notifying me about the changes required to get it working!!

By: eskay

eskay — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:33:08 +0000

Hi,

I am sorry I am unable to help. I have been completely out of touch with ns2. It has been over two years since I worked on it, so am not sure how to help.
Currently I am completely into J2EE programming.

Apologies.
Karthik

By: Ella

Ella — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:02:42 +0000

Hi
I followed all the steps written here in eclipse hellios, it builds and runs my tcl file with no errors . However, it doesn’t stop at the breakpoints when debugging, and debug returns the exact same thing as run.
I would really appreciate any help!

By: sara

sara — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:41:04 +0000

Hi,

I followed all configuration steps but when i want to build ns-2.34 project , i get two following errors :

ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘init_misc’ with no type ns_tclsh.cc /ns-2.34 line 30 C/C++ Problem

make: *** [ns_tclsh.o] Error 1 ns-2.34 line 0 C/C++ Problem

Hope you can provide some help.Thank you

By: Mihai

Mihai — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:11:21 +0000

Hi. I followed the steps and it works perfect. But my problem is what do I do now, because I have to run a tcl file. I Sourced the file in the ns terminal but the break points are not hit.
Hope you can provide some help.

By: eskay

eskay — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:21:46 +0000

I guess you are trying to create two projects in the same location using Eclipse.
This is not permitted.

Check out Help in Eclipse. Also, Google can provide you help on this

Cheers!

By: lynn

lynn — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:06:08 +0000

I read your blog “Configure NS-2 with Eclipse in Linux” and have tried to follow your procedure,but I have a problem that when I come to “browse to the directory NS-2 source directory ( …/ns-allione-2.34/ns-2.34 )”,the eclipse has a error that /home/lynn/ns/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34 overlaps the location of another project: ‘ns-2.34′ .

My eclipse galileo version Version:3.5.2
Could you help me?

By: Sudheer

Sudheer — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:44:01 +0000

Thanks, I tried it with helios and it worked fine.

By: Rodrigo Pantoni

Rodrigo Pantoni — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:03:13 +0000

Hi,
I have tried to follow your procedure in your blog to compile ns2 using eclipse galileo. I am frustrated because I did not find the “normal” eclipse, where everything was fine. Do you know if it is possible to use that instead of eclipse galileo?

Related to eclipse galileo, I can not see the options you described in the IDE:

“Select Project Type as Makefile Project -> Empty C++ Project.
Toolchains: Linux GCC”.

My eclipse galileo version Version: 3.5.2 Build id: M20100211-1343.
Could you help me?