Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal plugin interface

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:14:22PM +0200, Matthijs Melchior wrote:
> Use cygwin "gcc -aux-info xyzzy ... -c plugin_api_list.c" to create
>   a file with conststent formatted declarations.  This makes it possible
>   to extract the symbol names with a regular expression...

We could do that...

...but not as part of the build procedure, as:

	1) people might be using older versions of GCC that don't
	   support "-aux-info";

	2) people might not be using GCC at all.

I.e., that'd have to be done manually whenever the plugin interface is
updated.