When I was mucking around with plugins, I just put them in ~/.ethereal/plugins and they were automatically detected.
You could do "make install" to install the plugins; this puts it in some central location like "/usr/local/lib/ethereal/0.9.5/plugins". You could change that with "./configure --with-plugin-dir=/users/ashokn/plugin-test; make; make install" and that would also do it.
-Ashok
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:03:28 -0400, "Patnaik, Anjela" <APatnaik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, folks, so how I do make Ethereal find
> the plugins? I have rebuilt from the nightly
> tar ball (2002-08-01) on solaris 2.7 after many
> headaches.
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:57 PM
> To: Joerg Mayer
> Cc: Patnaik, Anjela; 'Frank Singleton'; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RE: trying to build with giop plugin using
> Solaris 2.7 and ethere al 0.9.6
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:44:20PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > I'm not sure that ethereal searches for plugins inside
> > the build tree.
>
> It doesn't, on UNIX - it doesn't know where the build tree is.
>
> Even on Windows, where it does know where *it* (the Ethereal/Tethereal
> binary) is, it only looks in a "plugins/{version}" subdirectory - it
> doesn't know that it needs to look in the "mgcp" directory for the MGCP
> plugin, for example.
>
> This is a nuisance when running Ethereal from the build tree.
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