Preface
Foreword
This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into
the wonderful world of Ethereal development.
Developers who are new to Ethereal are often having a hard time getting
their development environment up and running. This is
especially true for Win32 developers, as a lot of the tools and methods
used when building Ethereal are much more common in the UNIX world than
on Win32.
The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment
needed to develop Ethereal.
The second part of this book will describe how to change the Ethereal
source code.
We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
Who should read this document?
The intended audience of this book is anyone going into the development of
Ethereal.
This book is not intended to explain the usage of Ethereal in general.
Please refer the
Ethereal User's Guide
about Ethereal usage.
By reading this book, you will learn how to develop Ethereal. It will
hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appears for
new (and sometimes even advanced) developers of Ethereal.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the whole Ethereal team for their
assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
Gerald Combs, for initiating the Ethereal project.
Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and his effort in maintaining
the various contributions on the mailing lists.
The authors would also like to thank the following people for their
helpful feedback on this document:
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And of course a big thank you to the many, many contributors of the
Ethereal development community!
About this document
This book was developed by
Ulf Lamping.
It is written in DocBook/XML.
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