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

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> 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.
>  
OK, I will make that part a separate makefile target.
Expect a patch in the next few days.

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