-$Id: README.macos,v 1.7 2004/03/23 03:19:06 guy Exp $
+$Id$
-This file tries to help building Ethereal for Mac OS X (Ethereal does
+This file tries to help building Wireshark for Mac OS X (Wireshark does
not work on earlier versions of Mac OS).
-In order to build Ethereal, you must have X11 and the X11 developer
+In order to build Wireshark, you must have X11 and the X11 developer
headers and libraries installed; otherwise, you will not be able to
-build or install GTK+, and will only be able to build Tethereal. The
-X11 and X11 SDK that come with Mac OS X 10.3[.x] are sufficient to build
-and run Ethereal.
+build or install GTK+, and will only be able to build TShark. The X11
+and X11 SDK that come with Mac OS X Panther and Tiger are sufficient to
+build and run Wireshark.
-The changes to enable libwiretap and libethereal being built as shared
+The changes to enable libwiretap and libwireshark being built as shared
libraries have broken shared gtk1 builds on Mac OS X. The GLib 1.x and
GTK+ 1.x release tarballs were built with an older version of libtool
that didn't support shared libraries on Mac OS X, so you can't build and
install them as shared libraries, but the shared-library build of
-Ethereal requires GLib and GTK+, on Mac OS X, to be shared libraries.
-The alternative to build Ethereal as one big statically linked binary
+Wireshark requires GLib and GTK+, on Mac OS X, to be shared libraries.
+The alternative to build Wireshark as one big statically linked binary
isn't working either (and may never have worked on this OS).
The way out of this situation is to use gtk2 and associated libraries
GTK+ 2.4.0
ATK 1.6.0
-and the corresponding dependencies, which you can download from the
+and the corresponding dependency, which you can download from the
"dependencies" subdirectory of the GTK+ download directory on the GTK+
FTP site:
pkg-config
+
+as well as GNU gettext, which isn't included in the directory of
+dependencies on the GTK+ FTP site.
+
+GTK+ can also be configured to include code to load various sorts of
+images. To do so, you would also need the following dependencies, also
+available from the "dependencies" subdirectory of the GTK+ download
+directory:
+
jpegsrc
libpng
tiff
-as well as GNU gettext, which isn't included in the directory of
-dependencies on the GTK+ FTP site.
+However, on Tiger, it appears that the libraries built and installed by
+those packages collide with libraries that come with the OS, so you
+might have to configure GTK+ not to support loading those images
+(Wireshark doesn't use the ability to load JPEG, PNG, or TIFF images), by
+using the "--without-libpng", "--without-libjpeg", and
+"---without-libtiff" flags when running "configure" in the GTK+ source
+directory.
NOTE: you must set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include
"/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig" (unless you've already set it, set it to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig") before running the Pango configuration
script, so that it can be configured to use the version of fontconfig
-that comes with Mac OS X's X11.
+that comes with Mac OS X's X11. This is also needed for the GTK+
+configuration.
NOTE: you must install the pkg-config dependency first; unless it is
installed, you cannot configure GLib or GTK+. After that, you must
You will need to do "make install-lib" for the JPEG library to install
its libraries - "make install" does not suffice. You will also have to
-do "sudo ranlib /usr/lib/libjpeg.a" after "make install-lib".
+do "sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a" after "make install-lib".
For libpng, use scripts/makefile.darwin, not scripts/makefile.macosx.
-You will need to run Ethereal's configure script with the
-"--enable-gtk2" argument - by default, it'll try to configure with GLib
+Finally run the configure script. By default it will use
+the Glib2 and GTK+2 libraries. If you run Wireshark's configure script
+with the "--disable-gtk2" argument it'll try to configure with GLib
1.2[.x] and GTK+ 1.2[.x], in which case:
if they're not installed, the configure script will fail;
if they are installed, the configure script will configure
- Ethereal to build with them.
-
-Another problem are compile errors in the wiretap directory like the
-following:
-pcap-util.c: In function `get_interface_list_findalldevs':
-pcap-util.c:195: error: `pcap_if_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
-
-On first sight, it would appear that Mac OS X 10.x ships with a weird
-version of libpcap that includes pcap_findalldevs, but no definition for
-pcap_if_t.
-
-As it turns out, this isn't true for Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.3.2; they
-ships with an 0.6[.x]-derived libpcap that doesn't include
-"pcap_findalldevs()". The problem in those releases is caused by a
-Security Update - it updates the libpcap dylib to 0.8.1, but doesn't
-update the header files (or the man page - and also doesn't update the
-tcpdump man page to 3.8.1).
-
-In addition, the Software Update to 10.3.3 and later will update the
-libpcap dylib but not the header files. If systems come pre-installed
-with 10.3.3, they might have the correct header files (and man pages).
-
-As a workaround, install pcap.h, pcap-bpf.h and pcap-stdinc.h from
-tcpdump.org's libpcap 0.8.1 in "/usr/include".
+ Wireshark to build with them.
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