Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Modifying Makefile to include new tap
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:09:49 -0700
On Apr 12, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Shawn Mayer wrote:

> Wireshark's Makefile is well beyond anything I've ever edited,

Wireshark's Makefile is well beyond anything most people have ever edited, as it's generated by two levels of software; automake turns Makefile.am, and whatever it includes, to Makefile.in, and the configure script turns Makefile.in to Makefile.  Editing Makefile itself is not recommended.

> so how would I add a tap to it?

If you don't have automake, you can't do the best thing, which is to edit the appropriate Makefile.common; in that case:

	If the tap has no GUI (such as a TShark-only tap), edit the top-level Makefile.in and add it to the TSHARK_TAP_SRC list.

	If the tap has a GUI (a Wireshark-only tap), edit gtk/Makefile.in and add it to the WIRESHARK_TAP_SRC list.

Then re-run the configure script (it *might* rerun the configure script for you if you do a make, but I'm not sure).

If you *do* have automake (and autoconf and libtool) installed:

	If the tap has no GUI (such as a TShark-only tap), edit the top-level Makefile.common and add it to the TSHARK_TAP_SRC list.

	If the tap has a GUI (a Wireshark-only tap), edit gtk/Makefile.common and add it to the WIRESHARK_TAP_SRC list.

Then, if you haven't already run ./autogen.sh, do that, and then run the configure script.  Otherwise, just running make should suffice.