Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: how to include new files in wiretap?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an ethereal-dev question, not an ethereal-users question.  I'll 
send the answer to ethereal-users, in case anybody who might care 
doesn't read ethereal-dev, but I'll send replies to ethereal-dev.

On Sep 23, 2003, at 6:08 PM, parul singla wrote:

> I'm trying to rebuild ethereal by adding 2 files (.c and .h) in the 
> wiretap directory. This is to support the propritary file format which 
> our company has.
>
> when I try to do a "make" after "./configure" the above two files are 
> not recognized and I get the error in "wiretap/file_access.c" where 
> the call to the function (defined in the .c file) is there.
>
> DO i have to manually add these files in the configure or make scripts?

Yes.

>  If yes, which file and which place?

You add them to "Makefile.am", in the "libwiretap_a_SOURCES" list.

If you're building from CVS, "make" should re-generate "Makefile.in" 
from "Makefile.am" using automake, and should re-run the configure 
script to re-generate "Makefile" from "Makefile.in", and should rebuild 
with the new Makefile.

If you downloaded an Ethereal release source tarball, you might have to 
run "autogen.sh" from the top-level directory, and re-run the configure 
script.