Hello,
since using the Win32-installer for ethereal all users of non-english
versions of Windows are facing the problem, that the installer installs
ethereal under the standard program file location, but ethereal uses
a hardcoded path for the plugin folder.
For example the standard program location on my System is
"F:\Programme\".
Attached you find a patch for epan\plugins.c to replace the hardcoded
path c:\Program Files... with a path derived from the argv[0] argument,
pointing to the actual location of ethereal.exe.
That should fix any problems with finding the plugins under Win32.
Also I included a small patch to tetereal.exe to provide the argv[0]
argument to other parts of the program.
Gerrit
*** tethereal.c Fri Jul 13 15:52:26 2001
--- /POOL/POOL/GERRIT/ethereal_patch/tethereal.c Mon Aug 6 22:00:18 2001
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*** 147,152 ****
--- 147,153 ----
static int promisc_mode = TRUE;
#endif
+ gchar *ethereal_path = NULL;
static void
print_usage(void)
{
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*** 233,238 ****
--- 234,240 ----
e_prefs *prefs;
char badopt;
+ ethereal_path = argv[0];
/* Register all dissectors; we must do this before checking for the
"-G" flag, as the "-G" flag dumps a list of fields registered
by the dissectors, and we must do it before we read the preferences,
*** epan/plugins.c Fri Jul 13 15:52:28 2001
--- /POOL/POOL/GERRIT/ethereal_patch/plugins.c Tue Aug 14 22:12:00 2001
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*** 71,78 ****
plugin *plugin_list;
#ifdef WIN32
! static gchar std_plug_dir[] = "c:/program files/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
static gchar local_plug_dir[] = "c:/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
#else
static gchar std_plug_dir[] = "/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
static gchar local_plug_dir[] = "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
--- 71,80 ----
plugin *plugin_list;
#ifdef WIN32
! #include <stdio.h>
! static gchar std_plug_dir[_MAX_PATH+2] ; //= "c:/program files/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
static gchar local_plug_dir[] = "c:/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
+ extern gchar *ethereal_path;
#else
static gchar std_plug_dir[] = "/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
static gchar local_plug_dir[] = "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/" VERSION;
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*** 277,282 ****
--- 279,287 ----
init_plugins(const char *plugin_dir)
{
struct stat std_dir_stat, local_dir_stat, plugin_dir_stat;
+ #ifdef WIN32
+ char * path_pointer;
+ #endif
if (plugin_list == NULL) /* ensure init_plugins is only run once */
{
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*** 406,411 ****
--- 411,433 ----
patable.p_prefs_register_enum_preference = prefs_register_enum_preference;
#endif
+ #ifdef WIN32
+ strcpy(std_plug_dir,ethereal_path); /* get the actual path from argv[0] */
+ path_pointer=strrchr(std_plug_dir,'\\'); /* cut the program name from the path */
+ if (path_pointer!=NULL)
+ {
+ *(++path_pointer)='\0';
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ *std_plug_dir='\0'; /* oh, no absolute path.... */
+ }
+ if ((strlen(std_plug_dir)+strlen("plugins/"VERSION)+2)<_MAX_PATH)
+ {
+ strcat(std_plug_dir,"plugins/"VERSION); /* add the plugindir */
+
+ }
+ #endif
plugins_scan_dir(std_plug_dir);
plugins_scan_dir(local_plug_dir);
if ((strcmp(std_plug_dir, plugin_dir) != 0) &&
