Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] OS Support

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:52:10 -0800 (PST)
> Would it be possible for me to compile Ethereal to work on Windows 2000?  
> Would I need anything extra?

The current released version of Ethereal doesn't, as far as I know,
compile and work on Win32 systems, at least when compiled with
Microsoft's C compiler etc.; it *might* work if you built it with
CygWin:

	http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

if that works on NT 5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HW2K.

You'd need the Win32 port of GTK+ and GLib:

	http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/

or, in the Western hemisphere, a mirror at

	http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

In order to *capture* packets, you'd need a port of libpcap to Win32 -
it includes drivers, which are required, and the NT drivers *might*
work:

	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/

If you grab the current version by anonymous CVS, it's probably more
likely to work, and to compile with Microsoft's C compiler, although
Gilbert (who's doing the port) said in his last checkin that it doesn't
yet correctly read files (and he's using NT 4.0; hopefully 5.0 won't
manage to break it).