Enter the name of your module such as 'MyModule' and click OK.

In the dialog that follows select 'Visual C++'-> 'Empty Project' as the type of project.Right-click on the 'Solution ns-3-dev' and select Add -> 'New Project'.To create your own module do the following: At this point you can repeat the #How to build steps above to build the solution.From the menu click 'Build' -> 'Build Solution'.Open the solution file 'ns-3-win2/windows/ns-3-dev/ns-3-dev.sln' using Visual Studio 2012.Īfter all the projects are loaded do the following: The ns-3 package is available for download using mercurial using the command below on the command prompt Please note: Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2013 or 2015 are not supported (in the sense that they may not even have been tried). The Free edition of Visual Studio Express 2012 for C++ can be downloaded from.The following modules are not supported either because they are purely unix-centric or they depend on third-party libraries Source code which depend on third-party libraries are also excluded (We leave it to the user to provide the path to third-party libraries if they wish to use these sources). Purely Unix-centric source code is excluded and will require additional porting effort. Only the most essential components of the simulator are included. This version is built as a branch from the main ns-3.18 release. This project is an effort to provide a version of ns-3 which can be built using a native Windows compiler.

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