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Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] how do I compile/install a plugin?

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From: Nathan Peterson <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:56:11 -0500
I'm having some trouble just trying to figure out how to do a simple compile and install of a ethereal dissector plugin. I am using OS X on intel. I downloaded the source code for 0.99.0 and I see that there is a plugins directory in the source tree. If I run ./configure and then make in the plugins directory I get some *.la files. Then I tried copying one of the *.la files into the plugins directory of my darwin ports install of ethereal (i.e. /opt/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.99.0/)

I can't seem to get anything to work. I tried modifying the source code of one of the plugins to use a different tcp port just to see if it is working, but it didn't seem to do anything. Is there a way to tell if the plugin has loaded or not? Do I need a *.so file? All of the other plugins in that directory have *.la and *.so, but when I compile I only get a *.la file. Sorry for my ignorance. I'm kind of in a time crunch and I don't see much documentation on this. Any help would be appreciated.

-Nathan
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