Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FYI: Starting webbrowser from Help->Ethereal Online

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Jean-Baptiste Marchand wrote:

> Hello Ulf,
>
> * Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> [01/01/70 - 01:00]:
>
>  
>
> > Add experimental feature of opening a webbrowser, to show some of the
> > webpages from http://www.ethereal.com. This functionality is copied from
> > the Gimp.
> > Win32 will use ShellExecute to use the system registered webbrowser.
> > On unix builds, currently the mozilla browser is hardcoded, we still need a
> > preference setting for this (I will add this later).
> >    
>
> I'm not sure but it seems that this new functionnality is gtk2 specific.
>
> Thus, my CVS tree (configured with --disable-gtk2 because of the capture
> windows refresh problem I described three weeks ago on ethereal-dev@)
> does not build correctly:
>
> webbrowser.c: In function `browser_open_url':
> webbrowser.c:93: error: `GError' undeclared (first use in this function)
> webbrowser.c:93: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
> once
> webbrowser.c:93: error: for each function it appears in.)
> webbrowser.c:93: error: `error' undeclared (first use in this function)
> webbrowser.c:114: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `g_shell_quote'
> webbrowser.c:114: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without
> a cast
> webbrowser.c:125: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `g_shell_parse_argv'
> webbrowser.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `g_error_free'
> webbrowser.c:133: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `g_spawn_async'
> webbrowser.c:134: error: `G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
>
> I'm not sure but I suspect that this might be related to gtk2...
>  
As far as I inspected it, the things seems to be glib2 specific. As I'm 
using the win32 platform, where both gtk1.3 and gtk 2.x uses glib2, I 
didn't noticed it.

Hmmm, anyone has a good idea to solve this?

Regards, ULFL