Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Problem running Wireshark on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:50:51 -0700
Ian Schorr wrote:
> @Stig:
> 
> Just download the 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 DMGs, look at the contents of the .App
> files, and compare the differences.  You'll notice that 1.0.0 contains
> libraries like libpng12.0.dylib and libXrandr.2.dylib (which at least my
> system require for some reason), but the 1.0.2 bundle doesn't contain
> either (and several other files).
> 
> Is it possible that the act of not overwriting certain libraries also
> meant that they weren't included in the Application bundle when it was
> built, for some reason?

The 1.0.0 .dmg was built on a system using MacPorts, and the 1.0.2 .dmg was
built using Fink, which may be the reason for this.

We should probably take a look at Imendio's "Ige Mac Bundler":
http://ftp.imendio.com/pub/imendio/ige-mac-bundler/, which is supposed to
sidestep issues like this by compiling its own GTK+ environment.

> @Christian:
> You can download all versions of the OS X Wireshark build at
> http://www.wireshark.org/download/osx/all-versions/ .  1.0.0 is there.
> 
> I'll try 1.0.3 when I get home to see if it works any differently (I
> only have PPC at work).  The libraries are still "missing" from it, though.

There haven't been any changes to the OS X packaging environment between 1.0.2
and 1.0.3.