Hi Anjela,
--On Monday, August 12, 2002 15:41:45 -0700 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You'll need Cygwin in order to run shell scripts such as idl2eth;
> idl2eth should also include GNU tar and gunzip/gzcat, which will let you
^
Guy surely meant Cygwin here ;-)
I am not sure if this is obvious to you, but you also need to have omniOrb
installed on you system. To be precise: you need the tool omniidl from the
omniOrb distribution, which is the omniORB IDL compiler . This is what the
idl2eth shell script calls.
The IDL compiler uses a python script written by Frank Singleton as the
back end to generate the ethereal plugin C source.
Once you have the C source there are a few more steps involved in getting
the plugin compiled. You may want to look at Franks article for details:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5453
If you do not already have omniORB installed, I can give you a few more
details. It may be a bit of work to get it and working, at least on linux.
(don't know about Windows).
omniORB is available from
http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORB.html
which will point you to the new development site
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/
as the AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge have been closed.
Bernd
