Re: compiling asn.1 dissectors in Linux

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Born In <d3c1978 () yahoo com> wrote:

> Thank you. Was able to get past this. 
>
> Have another seemingly basic question. How do you append a suffix to the version number of custom compiled version of 
> wireshark?
> The Windows method of using an environment variable doesn't seem to be working in Linux

There are multiple build systems for Wireshark:

        1) autotools (UN*X-only - *maybe* you can try it on Windows with Cygwin, but we don't support it);

        2) nmake (Windows-only)

        3) CMake (UN*X and Windows).

With nmake and CMake, the WIRESHARK_VERSION_FLAVOR environment variable should work, on Windows or, for CMake, UN*X.

With autotools, that doesn't work - you'd have to manually edit the script.

Is there any reason not to have the configure script check WIRESHARK_VERSION_FLAVOR and, if it's set, use it, the same 
way the nmake files and CMake files do?

> (the basic build guide for Linux seems to be almost non-existent (compared to Windows). This may be intentional, but 
> the not-so-brilliant folks like me have trouble with it :-) )

Wireshark was originally a UN*X program, and its build process was constructed for UN*X; building on Windows requires a 
lot of extra stuff, so more documentation was written for that.

> Br
>
> On Monday, April 11, 2016 2:01 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:48 AM, d3c1978 () yahoo com wrote:
> >
> > > How do I regenerate ASN.1 based dissectors when I change some .asn and .cfg files in 
> > > wireshark/epan/dissectors/asn1/lte-rrc/ ?
> >
> >     cd epan/dissectors/asn1/lte-rrc
> >     make
> >
> > > I know about it in Windows (thanks to Pascal), but now am stuck with Linux (even the directory structure seems to 
> > > be quite different here).
> >
> > The only difference in the directory structure is that paths use /, rather than \, as path separators, just like 
> > other UN*Xes.  The actual directory *layout* is the same in all OSes.
> >
> > If you're referring to the "asn1" directory having moved from the top level to being under epan/dissectors on UN*X 
> > and epan\dissectors on Windows, that's a relatively recent change that affects *all* platforms.
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