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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark

From: Dietfrid Mali <karx11erx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:57:50 +0100
Hi Jaap,

thanks for the info. I have given up on trying to build Wireshark with Eclipse. It's too much of a mess.

How do I configure the regular Linux make for debugging? With --enable_debug=yes, or how else please?

> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:01:00 +0100
> From: jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
>
> Hi,
>
> Your a bit on your own here, but lets get an bottom up approach going
>
> You'll need files from:
> /-codecs/<all subfolders>
> -epan/<all subfolders>
> -gtk
> -plugins/<all subfolders>
> -win32
> -wiretap
> -wsutil
>
> Be aware of the fact that stuff is compiled into libraries, which can be put
> together in the various working parts of the suite: Wireshark and the command
> line tools.
>
> I wonder if you could just build using the autotools (gasp) and then launched
> your debugger on the result. Should figure out where to look just fine. Adding
> the ASN.1 directory you are interested in to the GDB source path makes that work
> too.
>
> Thanks,
> Jaap
>
> On 01/20/2011 10:26 PM, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:32:44 -0700
> > > From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:45:23PM +0100, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have been trying to build Wireshark using Eclipse, but I am running
> > > > into missing header and C files all the way (particularly with many of
> > > > the decoders in the ASN1 source tree). The reason is that I want to
> > > > add a few new codecs using libspandsp, have failed in properly adding
> > > > them so far
> > >
> > > The asn1 source tree contains template files and specification files
> > > that are merged together and use #line and #file pre-processor
> > > directives to show where everything came from. There shouldn't be a
> > > problem finding any headers.
> > >
> > When throwing a bunch of C source files at Eclipse, it simply assumes it
> > should build all of them and create an executable from them. While I
> > could easily tell it not to build the tools the source of which is
> > contained in the source code I have checked out from the Wireshark SVN
> > repo, I cannot tell which other files are auxiliary, so Eclipse is
> > indeed throwing a lot of file not found errors both for C source and
> > header files, particularly when building stuff from the ASN1 subfolder. So?
> >
> > > > would like to be able to conveniently debug Wireshark using Eclipse's
> > > > built-in graphical gdb frontend.
> > >
> > > You could always try emacs :)
> >
> > I could also sow a button to my cheek ... or use DDD (Eclipse's gdb GUI
> > is much better though). Avoiding good tools when developing software is
> > a kind of masochism I don't share. ;)
> > >
> > > > Is there an Eclipse project available for building Wireshark on Linux?
> > >
> > > Not that I'm aware of.
> > >
> > > > If no, is there general information available how to build Wireshark
> > > > w/o using the automake stuff it comes with by default?
> > >
> > > We have cmake build files.
> > >
> > I could as well analyze the automake hell Wireshark comes with. ^_^
> > Btw, I would have happily used the Wireshark VS solution to see how to
> > add spandsp codecs, but to my horror I found out that it used some nmake
> > hell just as well ... and required bash (Cygwin/mingw?) which I don't
> > have installed on my Windows machine (why should I).
> > >
>
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