Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Anyone of the developers going to support Win98 (and alike) any further? Otherwi

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Fink wrote:

> This list just came as output from "fink show-deps ethereal" and the 
> corresponding libraries.

So are we talking about the Fink project's Ethereal/Wireshark package, 
or the Andreas Fink Ethereal/Wireshark package? :-)

If it's the Fink project's package, they might, for whatever reason, 
have decided to configure Ethereal/Wireshark with PCRE when building a 
version that uses GTK2, but not when building a version that uses GTK1, 
even though a GTK1 version can be built with PCRE and a GTK2 version can 
be built without PCRE.

> I remeber that in previous versions there was even more. Cairo, 
> Ghostscript and a lot of Font stuff where needed when Pango was 
> included. That was really the nightmare to follow.

Cairo is probably an issue of the version of GTK2 that they're using - I 
forget whether it's GTK+ 2.6 or 2.8 that requires Cairo.

> Actually JPEG/PNG/TIFF are the easy part to make work (I did that in the 
> past for gdlib)
> The hard work is pango and all the font stuff. Thats where I gave up 
> last time.

I haven't had trouble with it, but I'm using GTK+ 2.4.8 (I gave up on 
later versions, because of the font problems).

> How much work would it be to build a GTK replacement running on Aqua 
> implementing only the limited amount of calls Ethereal is using off GTK?

I can't speak for GTK1, but there's a project to do so for GTK2:

	http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx