Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Crosscompiling TSHARK to run on embedded linux on ppc440!

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:49 PM, H Aslam wrote:

> did a yum install yum install glib2-devel and compiled.. will this  
> not work?

Probably not, if what was installed is an x86 binary version of the  
library.

> now i assume i can take the compiled files and just crosscompile  
> with eldk to run on the ppc440?

You can't compile already compiled files; "cross-compile" means to  
compile on a machine of one type and generate machine code for a  
machine of another type, so cross-compiling is a type of compiling.

You have to cross-compile the *source* files.  If you already compiled  
TShark without specifying that you were compiling for a PowerPC  
system, you presumably compiled it to run on the machine on which you  
compiled it.  You would have to compile it again in order to run on  
the PPC440.

> where are the files located that I have to compile?

In the Wireshark source directory.

(Have you cross-compiled any software for the PPC440 machine in the  
past?)