"Patnaik, Anjela" wrote:
>
> I have built some GIOP plugins using
> the Makefiles and idl2eth.
>
> Now, several of my IDL files have newer
> versions so I was wondering if I need to
> rebuild the whole Ethereal package for
> each version.
>
Generally, NO. Just create the new plugin source code using idl2eth
idl2eth ../somewhere/idlfile_v2.idl > plugins/giop/packet-idlfile-v2.c for example.
and update the Makefiles in plugins/giop directory.
Then, from top level ethereal directory do
1. ./autogen.sh
2. make
3. make install (as root)
and you should be ok.
> Say, I had
> idlFile1 v1
> idlFile2 v1
> These are compiled into Ethereal V1
>
> Then, if I also have idlFile2 v2, do I need
> a Ethereal V2 or can I just recompile the changed
> IDL using a new name and have both versions
> available via the same executable?
Yes that would be ok, just give the new IDL file
a name that refelects its revision. So you
should have both revisions available as plugins
to Ethereal.
You may wish to disable the v1 plugin via the
"Edit/Protocols" if you want v2 to do the
decoding.
Regards / Frank
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