Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems building a GIOP plugin

["W. Borgert" <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello developers,

Andy Ling found two problems in my code - thanks!
Could please someone with SVN write access fix it?

1. replace "and" with "&&" in ethereal_gen.py:2103

2. add make_printable_string in libethereal.def

Thanks in advance!

Cheers, WB

Quoting Andy.Ling@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> "W. Borgert" <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 28/10/2005 17:05:13:
> > Quoting Andy.Ling@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> > > First I get code generated by omniidl that looks like :-
> > >
> > >             if (u_octet4_loop_RawData > 0 and tree) {
> >
> > Yes, this is a "confused Python with C" error in ethereal_gen.py:2103.
> > Sorry. Could please one of the people with svn write access fix it?
> >
>
> OK I've found that and fixed it in my copy.
>
> > > The "and" in this causes a syntax error. Adding "#define and &&" to my
> > > .c file fixes this, but then I get a link error :-
> > >
> > > error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _make_printable_string
> >
> > Hm, this function was "always there", but I had to declare it
> > "extern" in packet-giop.h. The function itself is in packet-giop.c.
> >
>
> I've also found the problem here. One bit of information I forgot
> to mention is I'm compiling under windows. This function is new
> and needs adding to libethereal.def to make it available in the
> libethereal DLL.