Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal under CygWin works reasonably well.
I don't remember seeing a post claiming compiling under cygwin was
working. I just tried compiling ethereal under cygwin, but ran into
trouble not described in the original post.
libtool is not installed. Has anybody else encountered this?
Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
>
> Dont know if it is news or old stuff but in case someone is interested,
> Ethereal works reasonably well under CygWin.
>
> To get it running there are some small steps :
> 1, Install XFree for Cygwin and make sure it runs properly
> (www.cygwin.com)
> 2, Follow the GNOME link on www.cygwin.com and download, compile and install
> both gtk 1.2.10 and glib 1.2.10 . Note on the page that there is a one line
> fix required for
> gtk to compile.
> 3, Download ethereal nightly snapshot and configure it with
> ./autogen.sh --without-pcap --without-plugins
> (is it --without-plugin or --without-plugins ? dont remember)
> 4, Run 'make ethereal.exe'
>
> Something is wrong with the makefile that gets generated so it doesnt work
> just running make.
> I am not curious enough to look at why 'make' doesnt work. 'make
> ethereal.exe' works well
> enough for me.
>
> 4, start X and ethereal, voila behold the mighty sniffer in all its glory.
>
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