Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] idl2eth for WINDOWS

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:41:45 -0700
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:03:01PM -0400, Patnaik, Anjela wrote:
> Now, is it possible to get the Windows files
> for idl2eth, and the two python files to just
> compile the IDL and add the compiled plug in at
> run-time?

No.

You need Ethereal source to build plugins.

> I guess i do not understand why I would have
> to rebuild ethereal as a whole if I just want
> to add the corba GIOP plugin.

You may not need to rebuild Ethereal, but you *do* need Ethereal source,
because the plugins generated by idl2eth #include headers that are
required by plugins.

> A second question: Where is the source
> distribution of ethereal and the GIOP scripts
> on the web (for WINDOWS)??
> I can only find .tar files which I believe are
> for unix.

No, they can be unpacked on Windows as well - you just need the right
tools.

You'll need Cygwin in order to run shell scripts such as idl2eth;
idl2eth should also include GNU tar and gunzip/gzcat, which will let you
unpack the .tar.gz files.  (GNU tar might be able to uncompress the
files itself, obviating the need for gunzip/gzcat.)