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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom dissector forgotten in building process

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:37:54 +0200
Hi,

Read doc/README.plugins very carefully and implement *all* changes listed in there. That should make things work.

Thanx,
Jaap


Fr�d�ric Courchesne - Paradox Innovation wrote:
Hi,

I made a custom dissector for a custom protocol we are triyng to develop, but it is not included/recognized when I do a �nmake all� or a �packaging (nsis)� command.

1^st problem :

- I am using the 1.0.99 (SVN) version of wireshark sources with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 environnement.

- I did put my own dissector source code in the C:\wireshark\plugins\my-plugin directory. (Plugin based on the example given by Ken Thompson : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/custom_dissector.aspx)

- I modified the file *C:\ wireshark\plugins\Makefile.nmake* to add my plugin in the *process-plugins* and the *install-plugins* sections

- When I run the command *C:\wireshark> nmake �f Makefile.nmake all*, the custom dissector is correctly built, but not copied to the *wireshark-gtk2\plugins\1.0.99\* directory.

- If I manually copy the file, the plugin works well.

2^nd problem :

- I modified the *C:\wireshark\packaging\nsis\Makefile.nmake* to add my custom dissector in the PLUGINS section.

- When I run the command *C:\wireshark> nmake �f Makefile.nmake packaging*, the custom dissector is absent of the package.

I looked almost every Makefile.nmake, Makefile.common, config.nmake of all folders, but I can�t find how to include my dissector. Do I have to open the whole project with Microsoft Visual Studio?

Fr�d�ric Courchesne