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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling without libpcap fails

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:50:33 -0600
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:20:22PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> I just tried to compile wireshark without libpcap and it fails. The 
> idea came from looking at the buildbot on osx failures where there now 
> is a callback to capture_if_cb, which only exists with pcap present. 
> I'm trying to find out whether this is easy to fix - I just have to 
> fix all the cmake cases first where stuff only gets built if libpcap 
> is available :-) Feel free to beat me to it.

I just committed r38782 to fix compilation with the configure script and 
the "--without-pcap" option.  But it generates the runtime warnings 
shown below.

(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: CaptureFilters: missing action /Capture/CaptureFilters
(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: Interfaces: missing action /Capture/Interfaces
(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: Options: missing action /Capture/Options
(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: Start: missing action /Capture/Start
(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: Stop: missing action /Capture/Stop
(wireshark:66065): Gtk-WARNING **: Restart: missing action /Capture/Restart

If I break up the "const char *ui_desc_menubar" with
#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP around the capture menu options, then the runtime 
warning changes to:

Warning: set_menu_vissible couldn't find action path= 
/Menubar/CaptureMenu