Hi Guy,
Thanks a lot for pointing to the issue! I finally got it working,
I had to do a
$ make clean ; make
in <ethereal-src>/gtk prior to do a new
$ ./configure --without-pcap --without-plugins
in <ethereal-src>. After removing the ethereal.exe binary, a simple
$ make ethereal.exe
just creates a working Ethereal executable!
Here are the steps to build ethereal in the cygwin environment:
1. Install the required cygwin packages (compiler, scripting, X, zlib)
with the CygWin setup.exe tool.
You need the base Xfree86 support plus the X headers package in order
to be able to compile the gtk+ package.
2. Download glib-1.2.10 and gtk+-1.2.10 from a mirror of www.gnome.org.
3. Retrieve the patches for glib-1.2.10 and gtk+-1.2.10 from
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/
+ glib-1.2.10
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ (URL cont'd on next line)
/libs/patches/glib-1.2.10-cygwin.patch
In step 4:
$ CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --with-threads=posix
+ gtk+-1.2.10
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ (URL cont'd on next line)
/libs/patches/gtk+-1.2.10-cygwin.patch
In step 4:
$ CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome
4. Compile and install both packages after patching (see instructions
at the bottom of http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/).
5. Patch the Makefile.am in <ethereal-src>/gtk/Makefile.am by
removing "gtkclist.c" from the dependencies.
This patch is required since the private GTK+ clist widget
(was required for earlier versions of GTK+ but prevents Ethereal
from running with cygwin)
6. Configure and make Ethereal:
$ PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:$PATH
$ ./autogen.sh --without-pcap --without-plugins
$ ./configure --without-pcap --without-plugins
$ make
This make will eventually stop, but it is required as e.g., the
GTK binaries are built then.
$ make ethereal.exe
7. Start X
$ sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
For non-US keyboard layouts, use (replace 'be' with your layout):
$ setxkbmap.exe -layout be
8. Run ethereal (add /opt/gnome/bin to $PATH if this is not yet done)
$ <ethereal-src>/ethereal
Share and Enjoy!
Olivier
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: dinsdag 4 februari 2003 20:43
To: Biot Olivier
Cc: Ethereal-Dev (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Build ethereal within cygwin
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:11:47PM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> Now ethereal should run, but instead I get GTK critical error messages
(see
> attachment). What went wrong?
This might be a problem with the private version of the GTK+ clist
widget that we have (to deal with older versions of GTK+ where
constructing a clist of N items takes N^2 time).
Try removing "gtkclist.c" from the gtk/Makefile.am file, get rid of
gtkclist.obj, re-run configure, and try again.
