[omnetpp] bin/nedtool: Command not found

[bazara barry]

Hi everyone :-)
This is my first message to the group. I am kind of new to OMNeT++ world.
After downloading version 3.3 from the official web site and installing it,
I tried to run the very simple Tictoc example. I got the message:
make: /home/user/omnetpp-3.3/bin/nedtool: Command not found
I could not find any binaries for the program nedtool, only source code
which gave me endless error messages when trying to gcc it.
Could any one assist by directing me to where I can find a binary for
nedtool?
Thanks in advance.

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[Claudio Marforio]

Depending on which OS you want to install you should follow the installation
instructions that are in the wiki:
http://www.omnetpp.org/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.OmnetppInstallation

Hope this helps as a starter.

Welcome :)

~Claudio

[bazara barry]

Thanks Claudio for the quick response :-)
In fact I had followed the instructions on the web site literally, and
modified my configuration files accordingly. It seems to me that OMNeT
source does not have all the necessary binaries. My OS is Ubuntu linux 7.04.
Do I need to compile the whole OMNeT from source?

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[Claudio Marforio]

If you are on linux then you have followed this:
http://www.omnetpp.org/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.InstallingOnUnix
?

If so, the part that says:
./configure
make

actually builds OMNeT from source. If that works without any error then you
would have your binaries and the tool. Since you don't have that binaries I
think you didn't get to the point of compiling (or finish compilation without
errors).

Check again the whole process!

~Claudio

[bazara barry]

I had added:

./configure
make

to the file configure.user which is in omnetpp-3.3 subdirectory. Do I need
to issue the command 'configure.user' in order to build from source?
The web site is not clear about this. After mentioning the modification to
configure.user, it jumps to testing some of the existing examples such as
the 'dyna' example.

[Claudio Marforio]

No! :)
configure.user is used when issuing the ./configure command to the shell.
So you should edit configure.user to mathc your system configuration and then
from the shell (Terminal, bash, don't know how it is called) write the two commands:
./configure (shortly: will create Makefile(s) used by make)
make (shortly: compiles OMNeT sources to produce binaries)

Hope this helps a bit, clarifying the whole process :)