Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark

[Dietfrid Mali <karx11erx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used the call given below, but replaced 'gdb' with 'ddd'. ddd doesn't display any source code though, so there's still something going wrong.

This stuff is a PITA. Can't I even use a graphical debugger frontend to debug Wireshark?

> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:57:41 -0700
> From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:29:23PM +0100, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
>
>
> > Thanks. I tried that, and the files are indeed compiled with -g -O0,
> > but DDD (gdb) doesn't seem to find an program entry point (and
> > complains about bash missing on my openSUSE 11.3 box ???).
>
> When you debug Wireshark from the root build directory, use libtool as
> follows:
>
> libtool --mode=execute gdb ./wireshark
>
> Otherwise, you'll be debugging the libtool wrapper script called
> wireshark (which calls .libs/wireshark after setting up the proper
> library paths and such).
>
> If you wait to debug it until it's installed, the debugging symbols will
> be stripped by make install. I can usually debug Wireshark without
> needing to turn off optimizations (-O0).
>
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