Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] The Makefile problem: how to compile newly addeddissector

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

after modifying any Makefile stuff you must run autogen.sh
in the top directory. After that you need configure and make.

Best regards
Michael

On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:57 PM, Wei Li (Michael) wrote:

> I tried with 0.10.3, but the new dissector is still not compiled. 
> That's
> what I do:
> 1. add the new dissector packet-xxx.c into the top directory.
> 2. add "../packet-xxx.c" into "DISSECTOR_SRC" macro in the
> "epan/Makefile.common" file.
> 3. Stay in "epan" directory, type "make", no packet-xxx.o genereated.
>
> I don't have a "packet-xxx.h" file, so there is no need to anything 
> else,
> right?
> What's wrong?
> Thanks!
>
> > > I tried to incorporate a new dissector into ethereal (0.10.2) and
> > > build it all.  As instructed, I updated the Makefile.common in the 
> > > top
> > > directory.  However, the makefile does not recognize my new dissector
> > > file and left it uncompiled.
> >
> > I forget what the answer was for 0.10.2, but the current version is
> > 0.10.3 - and, in that version, you'd add it to the "DISSECTOR_SRC" 
> > macro
> > in the "epan/Makefile.common" file (and put "../" in front of the
> > dissector name, as is done for the names already there).
>
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