Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Regarding buiding Ethereal
From: "Abhik Sarkar" <sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:53:19 +0300
Hi Manjunath,

On WIN32, there are several other requirements than just cygwin to
compile WS. Please check out the documentation at
http://wireshark.org/develop.html and
http://wireshark.org/download/docs/developer-guide-a4.pdf to start
with. If you follow the instructions in the developer guide without
deviating, you can will almost certainly be successful on the first
compile attempt.

Regards,
Abhik

On 3/26/07, Manjunath P <patilm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 I am a newbie  to Wireshark  development. My aim is to have a protocol
dissector.
I have Windows XP  along with cygwin  installed on my m/c.
I have downloaded  source from
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-0.99.5.tar.gz
I read the "INSTALL"  file and tried to do a "./configure" in wireshark
folder through cygwin.
Then, I got this error and stops.

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checking whether to use libpcap for packet capture... yes
checking for extraneous pcap header directories... not found
checking pcap.h usability... no
checking pcap.h presence... no
checking for pcap.h... no
configure: error: Header file pcap.h not found; if you installed libpcap
from source, did you also do "make install-incl", and if you installed a
binary package of libpcap, is there also a developer's package of libpcap,
and did you also install that package?
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I downloaded "libpcap"  source from www.tcpdump.org  and put inside
wireshark directory.
I tried to compile this libcap separately and got an error

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checking for u_int16_t using gcc... yes
checking for u_int32_t using gcc... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for sys/ioccom.h... no
checking for sys/sockio.h... no
checking for ifaddrs.h... no
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for netinet/if_ether.h... no
checking for ANSI ioctl definitions... no
configure: error: see the INSTALL for more info
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 How to move forward in the building process.???
-------Manju
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