Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] idl2eth for WINDOWS

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:53:28 -0700
I am on the ethereal-dev list; questions such as this should be sent to
ethereal-dev, not sent to me with ethereal-dev CCed (especially given
that I cannot answer all of them).

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:45:02PM -0400, Patnaik, Anjela wrote:
> Okay, I have downloaded cygwin and untarred
> and unzipped the ethereal version that you sent
> me for Win2k. One question is that I didn't
> see the C compiler inside my cywin directory.
> Is this lurking somewhere?

It might have GCC, but I don't use GCC when compiling on Windows, I use
Microsoft Visual C++.

If you want to use Cygwin's GCC, you'd have to follow the "Instructions
for Cygwin" in the "README.win32" file in the top-level Ethereal source
tree.  I have never done that, so I cannot give you any help whatsoever
on making that work.

> Now, when I try to use omniidl, i get this error:
> 
> I have placed all IDL files in the same directory
> where I have ethereal and all its scripts and c files
> 
> $ omniidl -p ./ -b ethereal_be GlobalDefs.idl
> omniidl: Could not import back-end `ethereal_be'
> omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
> omniidl: (The error was `No module named tempfile')

I cannot answer that, as I have never used omniidl; I will leave that to
somebody who *has* used it to answer.