Thanx Jaap, That clarifies a lot. I am going to follow those instructions then. According to the README.plugin changes have to be done to higher level Makefile.am's. If I am correct I have to install the whole source, or am I wrong? I thought that I would be able to just compile my own sources. I hope that I am wrong again ;-)
On 1/29/07, Jaap Keuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Auw, that paragraph needs some serious work. Please let me refer you to > the README.plugin in the doc/ directory. That contains the current state > of the art way of creating plugin dissectors. > > For the rest, I never use autoscan, just automake, configure and make. > > Thanx, > Jaap > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, your highness wrote: > > > I am trying to add a dissector as a plugin for a new protocol. Before > > writing the dissector I tried the source of the example described in > > the documentation for developers: > > http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChDissectAdd.html > > > > I am using the Makefile.am of Example 9.6. given on that page exactly > > without any changes. I tried the following: > > - generated configure.scan by "autoscan" > > - renamed configure.scan to configure.in > > - ran "automake" > > > > But then I get a lot of errors as shown at the end of this email. I am > > using Fedora Core release 6 and automake-1.9... And I am a new Linux > > user :-) > > > > Then I tried autoscan and automake on the sources of a plugin which > > was included in the source and I got exactly the same errors. By the > > way, I have installed the binaries and haven't compiled the source > > myself. > > > > Has anyone an idea what I am doing wrong? > > > > Here is the output of automake: > > > > # automake > > configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. > > configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, > > configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, > > configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). > > Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found > > Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found > > Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found > > Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found > > Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found > > Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found > > configure.in:7: required file `config.h.in' not found > > Makefile.am:5: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined > > Makefile.am:5: > > Makefile.am:5: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' > > Makefile.am:5: to `configure.in' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again. > > /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear > > in AM_CONDITIONAL > > /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in > > AM_CONDITIONAL > > _______________________________________________ > > Wireshark-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
