Hi,
Thanks again for all the help! I finally gave up on 4.0.2 and downloaded the sources to 3.6.10 . I was able to get that to compile without too much difficulty :)
Best regards,
--
Mun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 10:23 AM
> To: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Wireshark-users] Issues compiling Wireshark on RHEL7
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the information and advice! I'll look into the rpm-setup.sh script and maybe give it a go. But if I continue to have issues,
> I'll downshift to Wireshark 3.6 as you have suggested.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mun
>
> > rpm-setup.sh and the other -setup.sh scripts are documented in the Developer's Guide at
> >
> > https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChapterSetup.html#ChSetupUNIX
> >
> > We also use rpm-setup.sh to build the containers used in our CI jobs, which means that a vast robot army will complain if it doesn't
> > work correctly.
> >
> > You'll probably have better luck building Wireshark 3.6 on RHEL7. That branch still has GitLab CI jobs that build and test using CentOS
> > 7, but in the 4.0 branch we bumped a *lot* of required package versions and dropped the CentOS 7 jobs.
> >
> > On 1/11/23 8:48 AM, Mun Johl via Wireshark-users wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I actually haven’t run rpm-setup.sh (uh-oh). I was working through the instructions in the INSTALL file and didn’t realize I should
> run
> > rpm-setup.sh first. I think during my web searches I did find mention of that, but I was already knee deep and wasn’t sure if I should
> > run it after I got started.
> > >
> > > Do you recommend I go ahead and run rpm-setup.sh now? That is, before I try to manually install PCRE2? If that setup script will
> > load all dependencies, that would be most excellent.
> > >
> > > Thank you and regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Mun
> > >
> > > *From:* Wireshark-users <wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *chuck c
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 11, 2023 6:37 AM
> > > *To:* Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > *Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-users] Issues compiling Wireshark on RHEL7
> > >
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> > >
> > > Were there any errors when running tools/rpm-setup.sh?
> > >
> > > https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/master/tools/rpm-setup.sh#L83 <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-
> > /blob/master/tools/rpm-setup.sh#L83>
> > >
> > > pcre2-devel \
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 6:46 PM Mun Johl via Wireshark-users <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wireshark-
> > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The error is just another missing library:
> > >
> > > CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
> > >
> > > Could NOT find PCRE2 (missing: PCRE2_LIBRARY PCRE2_INCLUDE_DIR) (found
> > >
> > > version "")
> > >
> > > I didn’t want to mention it yet because I haven’t begun my search yet for the lib or sources. Although, I appreciate your concern
> > and inquisitiveness :)
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Mun
> > >
> > > Can you share your error message? Anything like this:
> > >
> > > https://ask.wireshark.org/question/29646/cmake-dependency-failed-for-v40-when-trying-to-build-an-rpm-package-from-a-source-
> > tarball/ <https://ask.wireshark.org/question/29646/cmake-dependency-failed-for-v40-when-trying-to-build-an-rpm-package-from-a-
> > source-tarball/>
> > >
> > > "but here I'm using CentOS 7.9 after changed the dependencies in CMakeLists."
> > >
> > > Not sure what the CMakeList changes were.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 6:14 PM Mun Johl via Wireshark-users <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wireshark-
> > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thank you for the link. I was able to get past the c-ares issue—but unfortunately, another CMake Error awaits my attention.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Mun
> > >
> > > Suggestions for work-arounds:
> > >
> > > [Wireshark-dev] CARES to old for CentOS8?
> > >
> > > https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/202209/msg00017.html <https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-
> > dev/202209/msg00017.html>
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:55 PM Mun Johl via Wireshark-users <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wireshark-
> > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am attempting to compile Wireshark v4.0.2 on a RHEL7 server and am running into problems. My current issue is that the
> c-
> > ares library is not installed on the server. I’ve downloaded the c-ares source code but it seems my compiler is too old to be able to
> > compile c-ares.
> > >
> > > My questions are as follows: Is the “c-ares” library *required* for the proper compilation of Wireshark? Are there any
> > alternatives to using c-ares that I may be able to try?
> > >
> > > If c-ares is required, then I will try to install a newer version of the compiler from sources--since our repos do not have
> > anything newer.
> > >
> > > Thank you and regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Mun
> > >
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