Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38304: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/:

[Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:36:40PM -0400, Maynard, Chris wrote:

> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:22:03AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > 
> > > Do we already require Python to build Wireshark [even from a source
> > > distribution]?
> > 
> > I don't think so.
> 
> Isn't it?

> ===>    C:\Python27\python.exe: /cygdrive/c/Python27/python.exe     <===

Sorry, I was thinking along the lines of "do we require python to be 
linked into Wireshark" which is no.  But yes, we do use it for building.  
AFAIK, it is only used to build register.c and packet-ncp2222.c.  At 
least for register.c, it can also be built with /bin/sh but much more 
slowly.