Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Building Ethereal using Cygwin & DJGPP (gcc) on Win98

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:08:29 -0800
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:32:37PM +0000, Ian Wilson wrote:
> I've wrestled with the ./configure script, but things still don't seem quite 
> right, but it looks as though some people have been successful using some 
> patches...
> 
> are these patches going to make there way into the standard distribution?  

Were those patches ever sent to the ethereal-dev list?  (I don't remember
having seen them, but I don't know whether that's because they weren't
sent to the list, or because they were but I didn't notice them because
I don't use Cygwin to compile Ethereal, and have neither the time nor
the energy to guarantee that I'll see every message and pay a lot of
attention to it.)  If not, they probably won't go into the standard
distribution until they are sent to the list.

> in addition, I'm looking to implement some sort of decoder for an interface 
> on tcp-ip; do I just need to create my own packet decoder?

I'm assuming by "decoder for an interrface on TCP/IP" you mean a
dissector in Ethereal to analyze packets for some protocol running atop
TCP/IP.

If so, then, if there isn't already a decoder for that protocol, yes,
you will have to write one.