Wireshark · Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Missing libwiretap.a ....

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

|From: Richard Urwin
|
|
|On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 6:55 pm, jbl wrote:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I'm trying to install Wifiscanner witch depend to ethereal. When i
|> compiling ethereal all seen's ok.
|>
|> Now when i'm trying to compile wififscanner , this error pop up  :
|>
|> "checking for libwiretap.a location... configure: error: no wiretap
|> librarie found, take a look at http://www.ethereal.com/";
|>
|> An locate libwiretap show :
|>
|> /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0
|> /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
|> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.la
|> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so
|> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so.0
|> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
|>
|> Do you know how can i obtain a libwiretap.a ?!

Ethereal currently builds with *shared* libraries (extension: .la, .so)
instead of statically linked libraries (extension: .a, .o).

|libwiretap.a is in ethereal/wiretap.
|Is there some configuration you need to do to wifiscanner to 
|point it to 
|the ethereal source directory? Or did you delete the source after 
|installing it?

I think Wifiscanner should have a look at the current changes in the
Ethereal build process, this way they can make use of the *shared*
libraries.

Regards,

Olivier