Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] define PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:39 AM, li wrote:

> if I don't define PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE, I can compilt ethereal.

Do you mean "compile Ethereal", or do you mean "compile the library 
you're making from Ethereal for your own application"?

Note, by the way, that Packetyzer:

	http://www.packetyzer.com/

does something similar to what I think you're doing (using some of 
Ethereal's code to build a packet analyzer with your own user interface 
code), so you might want to look at what it does.

If you don't define PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE, the resulting version 
of Ethereal, or the resulting library, will not be able to use *any* 
plugins on Windows.

> but after I define it in config.h, I see lots of errors,

What errors do you see?  On Windows, we build the Ethereal (and 
Tethereal) programs with PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE defined, and it 
doesn't get fatal errors.

>  if I want to use H323 plugin , did I need to define it?

Yes (although note that the current CVS version of Ethereal has an 
H.323 dissector built into it.)