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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Hi. Ethereal compile question.

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:06:04 -0800
Matthew Grill wrote:
Hi there, I've got a little bit of a ethereal compile question. Below
is the ./configure print out and as it states at the bottom its not
going to build ethereal. Any help? Thanks!!

	...

checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.9.0)
checking whether GLib supports loadable modules... yes

The configure script found GLib, *presumably including the GLib development package*, but it didn't find GTK+, including *its* development package.

Do you have GTK+ 2.9.0, *including a development package*, installed? If not, you won't be able to build Ethereal, as it uses GTK+. (You'll be able to build Tethereal, and some people only want Tethereal and are building on a machine that doesn't have X11 installed and on which they don't want to install X11, e.g. some networking box, which is why we don't treate a failure to find GTK+ as a configuration-time error.)