Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Crosscompiling TSHARK to run on embedded linux on ppc440!

[H Aslam <hassan-aslam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or maybe i'm just being stupid?

Must admit that I'm a linux newbie..

Do I have to use my eldk package and "make" with a powerpc arch?

> From: guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:35:40 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Crosscompiling TSHARK to run on embedded linux on ppc440!
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:25 PM, H Aslam wrote:
>
> > I just did a yum install glib2... Didn't work!
>
> That probably installed GLib for use on the machine on which you ran
> yum, which is presumably your development machine, not the PPC440
> embedded Linux machine.
>
> The problem is that you want to cross-compile a program using GLib
> (TShark or dumpcap) on that machine, with the target being not the
> machine on which you're compiling it (an x86 machine), but the
> embedded machine in question (a PPC machine).
>
> This means you'll need to install, on your development machine, a
> version of GLib configured and built for your PPC440 embedded Linux
> machine. It would presumably be installed somewhere other than /usr/
> lib or /usr/local/lib, so that it doesn't overwrite the version on
> your system.
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