RE: [Ethereal-dev] building plugin dll-s on Linux?

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Urwin [mailto:RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> IIRC there is now the accepted ability to build Ethereal with Cygwin,
> under windows. Cygwin is largely a packaging of GNU tools, 
> including the
> GCC. GCC supports cross-compiling. So the technology *should* 
> be there.

This would be great, but the way I work (see README.win32 for
the whole story) I always disable plugin and pcap support when
building under cygwin:

     $ PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:$PATH

     $ ./autogen.sh --without-pcap --without-plugins
     $ ./configure --without-pcap --without-plugins

As a side note, I'm still not able to figure out why I cannot run "make"
without fatal errors popping up, I always have to specify "ethereal.exe"
as target (see the required extension). If some autogen/automake guru
could provide some help here, he'll be more than welcomed :)

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nak26 [mailto:nak26@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > 
> > Gents:
> > 
> > Is it possible (and if yes, how?) to build plugin dll-s on Linux?
> > 
> > I am asking this, because I have a plugin that I build as an 
> > .so&.la under 
> > Linux, and as a dll under Win32. However, it would be very 
> > accomodating if I 
> > can build both the Linux and the Windows libraries only on my 
> > Linux box.
> > 
> > Your help will be quite delightful...
> > Thanks,
> > Nik