Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Build just command line tools for AIX

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Usually I jump off and try before I ask but I thought I would ask first.

I have a need to build the wireshark command line tools for AIX.  In this case, I am not interested in the GUI interface.  I just need to be able to use tshark and editcap.  Can anyone give me some advice to make this easier?  I’m very proficient at building open source projects for AIX.  Usually GUI stuff is super hard because of all the library dependencies.  So I thought may be if I could just build the command line tools, it would be easier.  The target environment is rather restricted — perhaps even “very” restricted — so limiting dependencies would be really nice.

Fundamentally you want to start with "./configure --disable-wireshark" to disable the GUI.  Of course you'll still need quite a number of libraries (such as glib2) and programs (such as Python) but the list should be a lot shorter without the GUI.

There are also READMEs (including README.aix) in the source code that are worth checking out.