This means that I'll have to install Perl to build on Win32. More disk
space !
GB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Gilbert Ramirez
> Sent: 12 June 2000 16:12
> To: Guy Harris
> Cc: Christophe Tronche; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] initial X11 dissector close to completion,
> but...
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:24:08AM -0500, Guy Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 05:05:42PM +0200, Christophe Tronche wrote:
> > > I've got a lot of header fields (about 370 of them). To keep things
> > > manageable, I've put them in a text file, with a short Perl script
> > > (very specific to my needs) to create the register info and variable
> > > declarations in two .h files, then #included in the packet-x11.c file
> > > (I remember having seen this kind of things discussed before).
> >
> > What does the Perl script use as input?
> >
> > People may well add more fields to the X11 dissector if they add support
> > for X11 extensions, so the script might be useful to others.
>
> I wouldn't mind using Perl as another part of our build process. We use
> it to create the man pages. If we decide to use Perl for other files,
> I could get rid of "rdps" and use a Perl script. Also, I'm working on
> a re-do of the NCP dissector. It uses a table of information and a Python
> script to generate the C code. If we decide to use perl, I'll convert
> the NCP script to Perl.
>
> --gilbert
>
>