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diff --git a/README.macos b/README.macos index 6d9da18846..6ee4e8b9b2 100644 --- a/README.macos +++ b/README.macos @@ -16,13 +16,15 @@ be able to build TShark. The X11 and X11 SDK that come with Mac OS X releases starting with Panther can be used to build and run Wireshark. You must also have GLib and, if you want to build Wireshark as well as -TShark, GTK+. See +TShark, GTK+. The macosx-setup.sh script can be used to download, patch +as necessary, build, and install those libraries and the libraries on +which they depend; it will, by default, also install other libraries +that can be used by Wireshark and TShark. The versions of libraries to +download are specified by variables set early in the script; you can +comment out the settings of optional libraries if you don't want them +downloaded and installed. - https://nplab.fh-muenster.de/groups/wiki/wiki/fb7a4/Building_Wireshark_on_SnowLeopard.html - -for information on how to install GLib, GTK+'s dependencies, GTK+, and -some additional optional support libraries from source. -from source +After you have installed those libraries: If you are building from a Subversion tree, rather than from a source distribution tarball, run the autogen.sh script. This should not be @@ -59,7 +61,8 @@ to un-install them and rebuild them on Snow Leopard (10.6), to get 64-bit versions. Some required and optional libraries require special attention if you -install them by building from source code on Snow Leopard: +install them by building from source code on Snow Leopard; the +macosx-setup.sh script will handle that for you. GLib - the GLib configuration script determines whether the system's libiconv is GNU iconv or not by checking whether it has libiconv_open(), @@ -67,7 +70,8 @@ and the compile will fail if that test doesn't correctly indicate whether libiconv is GNU iconv. In Mac OS X, libiconv is GNU iconv, but the 64-bit version doesn't have libiconv_open(); a workaround for this is to replace all occurrences of "libiconv_open" with "iconv_open" in -the configure script before running the script. +the configure script before running the script. The macosx-setup.sh +setup script will patch GLib to work around this. libgcrypt - the libgcrypt configuration script attempts to determine which flavor of assembler-language routines to use based on the platform @@ -77,7 +81,8 @@ determine the processor type; however, in Mac OS X, uname always reports 64-bit processors, so it will attempt to assemble the 32-bit x86 assembler-language routines, which will fail. The workaround for this is to run the configure script with the --disable-asm argument, so that -the assembler-language routines are not used. +the assembler-language routines are not used. The macosx-setup.sh will +configure libgcrypt with that option. PortAudio - when compiling on Mac OS X, the configure script for the pa_stable_v19_20071207 version of PortAudio will cause certain @@ -85,8 +90,5 @@ platform-dependent build environment #defines to be set in the Makefile rules, and to cause a universal build to be done; those #defines will be incorrect for all but one of the architectures for which the build is being done, and that will cause a compile-time error -on Snow Leopard. The current snapshot version of PortAudio still -defines those values in the Makefile, but it appears to use them in ways -that don't cause build problems; its configure script also has a -"--disable-mac-universal" flag that can cause the build not to be done -universal. +on Snow Leopard. Newer versions don't have this problem; the +macosx-setup.sh script downloads a newer version. |