Re: Eclipse project for Wireshark

[Dietfrid Mali <karx11erx () hotmail com>]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:32:44 -0700
> From: steve () stephen-fisher com
> To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:45:23PM +0100, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to build Wireshark using Eclipse, but I am running 
> > into missing header and C files all the way (particularly with many of 
> > the decoders in the ASN1 source tree). The reason is that I want to 
> > add a few new codecs using libspandsp, have failed in properly adding 
> > them so far
>
> The asn1 source tree contains template files and specification files 
> that are merged together and use #line and #file pre-processor 
> directives to show where everything came from.  There shouldn't be a 
> problem finding any headers.
When throwing a bunch of C source files at Eclipse, it simply assumes it
 should build all of them and create an executable from them. While I 
could easily tell it not to build the tools the source of which is 
contained in the source code I have checked out from the Wireshark SVN 
repo, I cannot tell which other files are auxiliary, so Eclipse is 
indeed throwing a lot of file not found errors both for C source and 
header files, particularly when building stuff from the ASN1 subfolder. 
So?

> > would like to be able to conveniently debug Wireshark using Eclipse's 
> > built-in graphical gdb frontend.
>
> You could always try emacs :)

I could also sow a button to my cheek ... or use DDD (Eclipse's gdb GUI is much better though). Avoiding good tools 
when developing software is a kind of masochism I don't share. ;)
> > Is there an Eclipse project available for building Wireshark on Linux? 
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> > If no, is there general information available how to build Wireshark 
> > w/o using the automake stuff it comes with by default?
>
> We have cmake build files.
I could as well analyze the automake hell Wireshark comes with. ^_^
Btw, I would have happily used the Wireshark VS solution to see how to add spandsp codecs, but to my horror I found out 
that it used some nmake hell just as well ... and required bash (Cygwin/mingw?) which I don't have installed on my 
Windows machine (why should I).
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