Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Are plugins working?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:10:08 -0600
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:49:04 -0800 (PST)
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > thanks. That helps my Linux version, but not my Win32 version.
> 
> After copying 0.8.14 to my desktop machine at work, "gryphon" didn't
> show up in "Edit->Protocols".
> 
> After making a "plugins\0.8.14" directory under "\program files\ethereal",
> and moving "gryphon.dll" to that directory, "gryphon" *did* show up in
> "Edit->Protocols".
> 
> The plugin code assumes (and always has assumed) that the plugins are
> in "c:\program files\ethereal\plugins\<version number>" (or in the other
> plugin directories); if they're not there, it can't find them.
> 

Hmmm. I had copied the plugins to c:\ethereal\plugins\<version number>,
which is the local_plug_dir variable in epan/plugins.c. Are you able
to see the plugins if they're in local_plug_dir and not in std_plug_dir?

--gilbert