On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:39:39PM -0700, Rizwan Tahir wrote:
> where to find Source code of Ethereal
> which i can download and start my dev.
Go to
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#sources
and pick the mirror site nearest you; download it from there.
> second,
> is it compatible with Windows 2000 pro,
The binaries work fine on my W2K Professional machine at work; I suspect
that if I compiled them at work (I don't have a C compiler on the
machine at work), the resulting binaries would probably work as well.
> and will i be able to compile the
> current version without modification at the first place ?
> because dev c++ some time give me compatibility erros :(
What compatibility errors have you gotten? I've been able to compile it
for quite a while on my home machine (running NT 4.0).
Note, however, that, in order to compile it, you'd need more than
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (5.0 may also work; I don't know about 4.0).
You'll also need a number of other third-party packages; the
README.win32 file, which can be read at
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/win32-README.txt
describes what you'll need.
Note that you'll need at least some of those tools just to *unpack* the
source code, because it's distributed in "gzipped tarball" format, which
requires either GNU tar (which, as I remember, includes code to
decompress gzipped tarballs), or gzip/gunzip and tar, and you'd probably
need to install the Cygwin tools to get gzip/gunzip and GNU tar.
