Hi, I am trying to build wireshark 2.2.4 in linux Environment(cent os 6.3), the commands are:- asked 25 Apr '17, 03:11  Abhisek edited 25 Apr '17, 04:54  Jaap ♦ |
2 Answers:
As hinted at by Jaap's comment, it is possible to avoid running ./autogen.sh: the way to do it is to download Wireshark's source code as a tarball (e.g., from here). Those source tarballs have already had ./autogen.sh run on them (it's part of the Note that this won't work, however, if you need to modify Wireshark in certain ways (e.g., to add dissectors). answered 25 Apr '17, 06:03  JeffMorriss ♦ I actually tried without ./autogen.sh and build is successful. Thanks. But, If i want to add dissectors in epan/dissectors directory and update that directory makefile accordingly, then why i need autogen.sh in build process? (27 Apr '17, 23:32) Abhisek You may get away with that. Note that because Makefile is generated from Makefile.am you should make sure to add them there as well. (28 Apr '17, 01:47) Jaap ♦ I tried to skip ./autogen.sh step by ./configure ./make ./make clean ./make install but getting error when i am modifying makefile.am and that time geeting error in make clean & make failied ( error missing automake <version>). Any alternatives so that i can change makefile.am and ./autogen.sh is not needed. Please help. (03 May '17, 03:55) Abhisek "currently the autoconf cannot be changed as it's used many other modules)" would changing it really affect the other modules adversely? (03 May '17, 03:59) Anders ♦ Ok basically the machine is having wireshark 1.10.6, wireshark 1.12.8 also. Current autoconf version 2.63. This autoconf is good enough for WS1.10.6 and WS 1.12.8, but not for 2.2.4. So if we change autoconf to 2.64 or later, does it affect WS1.10.6 and WS1.12.8 build process? (03 May '17, 04:38) Abhisek 1 @Abhisek You can upgrade to autoconf 2.64 without issues, 1.10.z and 1.12.z should continue to work with that newer version. (03 May '17, 04:58) Lekensteyn 1
If you modify Makefile.am, you must have automake (that's the program that turns Makefile.am into Makefile.in) and you must run automake to rebuild Makefile.in. You're best advised to run ./autogen.sh, because it runs automaker and autoconf for you. (03 May '17, 11:49) Guy Harris ♦♦ autoconf 2.69 is installed.So now ./autogen.sh is being executed. Now build for 2.2.4 is done as well as 1.10.x & 1.12.y. So no problem with autoconf latest version. Thanks all. (05 May '17, 02:49) Abhisek showing 5 of 8 show 3 more comments |
As alternative to autotools, you can try CMake. CentOS 6 includes CMake 2.8.12.2 while the current minimum required CMake version is 2.8.8. No "autogen.sh" step is needed for CMake. Here are the recommended steps (assuming you are in the Wireshark source tree): For more information, see the README.cmake file in the top of the source tree. answered 03 May '17, 04:46  Lekensteyn Ok basically the machine is having wireshark 1.10.6, wireshark 1.12.8 also. Current autoconf version 2.63. This autoconf is good enough for WS1.10.6 and WS 1.12.8, but not for 2.2.4. So if we change autoconf to 2.64 or later, does it affect WS1.10.6 and WS1.12.8 build process? (03 May '17, 04:55) Abhisek (Replied to the other post; if you use CMake then the autoconf version is totally irrelevant as it is not used.) (03 May '17, 04:59) Lekensteyn But Cmake will use Qt, whereas we need gtk3 only. Please correct me if i am wrong. (03 May '17, 05:16) Abhisek Both CMake and autotools try to enable Qt, but if you prefer GTK+ 3 only (not recommended), use (03 May '17, 05:22) Lekensteyn |
What source code did you take? git clone? From where, and which branch? tarball? Other?
it's a tarball (wireshark-2.2.4.tar.bz2).