$Id$ This file tries to help building Wireshark for Mac OS X (Wireshark does not work on earlier versions of Mac OS). In order to build Wireshark, you must have X11 and the X11 developer headers and libraries installed; otherwise, you will not be able to build or install GTK+, and will only be able to build TShark. The X11 and X11 SDK that come with Mac OS X Panther and Tiger are sufficient to build and run Wireshark. The changes to enable libwiretap and libwireshark being built as shared libraries have broken shared gtk1 builds on Mac OS X. The GLib 1.x and GTK+ 1.x release tarballs were built with an older version of libtool that didn't support shared libraries on Mac OS X, so you can't build and install them as shared libraries, but the shared-library build of Wireshark requires GLib and GTK+, on Mac OS X, to be shared libraries. The alternative to build Wireshark as one big statically linked binary isn't working either (and may never have worked on this OS). The way out of this situation is to use gtk2 and associated libraries which is known to work in this constellation: GLib 2.4.0 Pango 1.4.0 GTK+ 2.4.0 ATK 1.6.0 and the corresponding dependency, which you can download from the "dependencies" subdirectory of the GTK+ download directory on the GTK+ FTP site: pkg-config as well as GNU gettext, which isn't included in the directory of dependencies on the GTK+ FTP site. GTK+ can also be configured to include code to load various sorts of images. To do so, you would also need the following dependencies, also available from the "dependencies" subdirectory of the GTK+ download directory: jpegsrc libpng tiff However, on Tiger, it appears that the libraries built and installed by those packages collide with libraries that come with the OS, so you might have to configure GTK+ not to support loading those images (Wireshark doesn't use the ability to load JPEG, PNG, or TIFF images), by using the "--without-libpng", "--without-libjpeg", and "---without-libtiff" flags when running "configure" in the GTK+ source directory. NOTE: you must set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include "/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig" (unless you've already set it, set it to "/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig") before running the Pango configuration script, so that it can be configured to use the version of fontconfig that comes with Mac OS X's X11. This is also needed for the GTK+ configuration. NOTE: you must install the pkg-config dependency first; unless it is installed, you cannot configure GLib or GTK+. After that, you must install GNU gettext; only after both of those have been built and installed will you be able to configure GLib. After configuring and installing GLib, configure, build, and install Pango, ATK, jpegsrc, libpng, tiff, and GTK+, in order. (The exact order might not be important, but you must configure, build, and install Pango and ATK before configuring GTK+ and, if you want GTK+ to be able to use the capabilities from the other libraries, you must configure, build, and install them before configuring GTK+.) You will need to do "make install-lib" for the JPEG library to install its libraries - "make install" does not suffice. You will also have to do "sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a" after "make install-lib". For libpng, use scripts/makefile.darwin, not scripts/makefile.macosx. Finally run the configure script. By default it will use the Glib2 and GTK+2 libraries. If you run Wireshark's configure script with the "--disable-gtk2" argument it'll try to configure with GLib 1.2[.x] and GTK+ 1.2[.x], in which case: if they're not installed, the configure script will fail; if they are installed, the configure script will configure Wireshark to build with them.