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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] adding dissector, automake fails

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:56:37 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

Yep, you'll need the whole source to start building plugins.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, your highness wrote:

> Thanx Jaap,
>
> That clarifies a lot. I am going to follow those instructions then.
> According to the README.plugin changes have to be done to higher level
> Makefile.am's. If I am correct I have to install the whole source, or
> am I wrong? I thought that I would be able to just compile my own
> sources. I hope that I am wrong again ;-)
>
>
> On 1/29/07, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Auw, that paragraph needs some serious work. Please let me refer you to
> > the README.plugin in the doc/ directory. That contains the current state
> > of the art way of creating plugin dissectors.
> >
> > For the rest, I never use autoscan, just automake, configure and make.
> >
> > Thanx,
> > Jaap
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, your highness wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to add a dissector as a plugin for a new protocol. Before
> > > writing the dissector I tried the source of the example described in
> > > the documentation for developers:
> > > http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChDissectAdd.html
> > >
> > > I am using the Makefile.am of Example 9.6. given on that page exactly
> > > without any changes. I tried the following:
> > > - generated configure.scan by "autoscan"
> > > - renamed configure.scan to configure.in
> > > - ran "automake"
> > >
> > > But then I get a lot of errors as shown at the end of this email. I am
> > > using Fedora Core release 6 and automake-1.9... And I am a new Linux
> > > user :-)
> > >
> > > Then I tried autoscan and automake on the sources of a plugin which
> > > was included in the source and I got exactly the same errors. By the
> > > way, I have installed the binaries and haven't compiled the source
> > > myself.
> > >
> > > Has anyone an idea what I am doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Here is the output of automake:
> > >
> > > # automake
> > > configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> > > configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> > > configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> > > configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
> > > Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found
> > > configure.in:7: required file `config.h.in' not found
> > > Makefile.am:5: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
> > > Makefile.am:5:
> > > Makefile.am:5: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
> > > Makefile.am:5: to `configure.in' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
> > > /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear
> > > in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > > /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
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