Re: Eclipse project for Wireshark

[Dietfrid Mali <karx11erx () hotmail com>]

I know what DDD is. 

Having to twist oneself like a pretzel to be able to debug Wireshark with DDD is a PITA though. ;)

Thank you for the hints, I will try that. 



> From: guy () alum mit edu
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:06:07 -0800
> To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>       http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Tips
>
> "Using DDD for debugging
>
> DDD is GNU's graphical front-end for the GDB command-line debugger (among others). http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
>
> To help DDD locate your source files while debugging, "cd" into the directory where those source files exist and then 
> start DDD through libtool (just like GDB), or look in the DDD menu "Edit" -> "GDB Settings..." -> "Search path for 
> source files" and explicitly add the path there."
>
> As noted, DDD is just a GUI front end to gdb; if gdb doesn't require this extra stuff to find source, but DDD does, 
> that's a bug in DDD, so you should complain to the DDD developers. If I run gdb on Wireshark the way you must run it 
> with any app built with libtool, i.e. with "./libtool --mode=execute gdb {application}", it appears to find source 
> files in, at least, the top-level directory, the epan directory, the epan/dissectors directory, and the gtk 
> directory, as well as in at least one plugin, at least on Mac OS X, without having to explicitly specify any paths in 
> which to search for source files - "show directories" just prints "Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd".
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