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Ebrahim Ghasemi
Asked: 2016-09-01 22:16:41 +0800 CST

How to compile and run "protoident"

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I'm trying to compile and run an open-source DPI tool named Protoident. So I downloaded its source code from Github and searched inside the directories for compile/build manuals, but I found nothing. Finally I started by running make command and Makefile command inside its directory, but I faced the following errors:

me@me-MS-7693:~/Desktop/protoident-master/src$ ./Makefile 
./Makefile: line 9: TARGET: command not found
./Makefile: line 10: PROTOCOLS: command not found
./Makefile: line 11: PROTOCOLS: command not found
./Makefile: line 11: SOURCES: command not found
./Makefile: line 12: SOURCES:.c=.h: command not found
./Makefile: line 12: HEADERS: command not found
./Makefile: line 13: SOURCES:.c=.o: command not found
./Makefile: line 13: OBJECTS: command not found
./Makefile: line 14: OTHER_FILES: command not found
./Makefile: line 18: CC: command not found
./Makefile: line 19: CFLAGS: command not found
./Makefile: line 21: OFLAG: command not found
./Makefile: line 22: CFLAG: command not found
./Makefile: line 24: CC: command not found
./Makefile: line 24: LINK: command not found
./Makefile: line 25: LINKFLAGS: command not found
./Makefile: line 26: LIBS: command not found
./Makefile: line 31: .SUFFIXES:: command not found
./Makefile: line 32: .c.o:: command not found
./Makefile: line 33: CC: command not found
./Makefile: line 33: CFLAGS: command not found
./Makefile: line 33: CFLAG: command not found
./Makefile: line 33: OFLAG: command not found
./Makefile: line 33: $<: command not found
./Makefile: line 38: SOURCES: command not found
./Makefile: line 38: TARGET: command not found
./Makefile: line 38: all:: command not found
./Makefile: line 40: profile:: command not found
./Makefile: line 41: profile_compile:: command not found
./Makefile: line 42: profile_compile:: command not found
./Makefile: line 43: profile_compile:: command not found
./Makefile: line 46: TARGET: command not found
./Makefile: line 46: OBJECTS: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: LINK: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: LINKFLAGS: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: LIBS: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: OFLAG: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: TARGET: command not found
./Makefile: line 47: OBJECTS: command not found
./Makefile: line 52: archive:: command not found
./Makefile: line 53: TARGET: command not found
./Makefile: line 53: SOURCES: command not found
./Makefile: line 53: HEADERS: command not found
./Makefile: line 53: OTHER_FILES: command not found
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
./Makefile: line 55: clean:: command not found
./Makefile: line 56: OBJECTS: command not found
./Makefile: line 58: distclean:: command not found
./Makefile: line 59: TARGET: command not found


me@me-MS-7693:~/Desktop/protoident-master/src$ make
gcc  -lpcap -o protoident main.o hashtable.o ip_reassembling.o flow.o global_func.o dns.o http.o sip.o smtp.o
main.o: In function `main':
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:85: undefined reference to `pcap_open_offline'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:97: undefined reference to `pcap_compile'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:100: undefined reference to `pcap_geterr'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:103: undefined reference to `pcap_setfilter'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:105: undefined reference to `pcap_geterr'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:118: undefined reference to `pcap_datalink'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:125: undefined reference to `pcap_loop'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:134: undefined reference to `pcap_freecode'
/home/ghasemi/Desktop/protoident-master/src/main.c:136: undefined reference to `pcap_close'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:47: recipe for target 'protoident' failed
make: *** [protoident] Error 1

Why I faced those errors and how can I compile and use this tool?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Makefile is a configuration file for make, not a separate command. The canonical build & install procedure is:

    ./configure
make
make install   # usually: sudo make install

    Most projects describe their installation process in detail in text files README, INSTALL or similar.

    However, this one does not have any configure script and has a ready Makefile instead. It does not contain INSTALL section, so the third command is also not applicable.

    So you only have to run:

    make

    It is documented in the README file in the src directory. Funny is that it’s written in Czech (which is by the way my native language).

    Fixing undefined reference errors

    There is a problem in the provided Makefile that can be fixed using the following patch (based on a Stack Overflow comment):

    diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 367dcc4..dda5fb3 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ profile_compile: all


 $(TARGET): $(OBJECTS)
-       $(LINK) $(LINKFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(OFLAG) $(TARGET) $(OBJECTS)
+       $(LINK) $(LINKFLAGS) $(OFLAG) $(TARGET) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS)

 #####################################
 #other rules
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  2. I took at look at your link for instructions. They can be found but are written in Czech. For example:

    Zdrojová a cílová síťová adresa, zdrojový a cílový port není třeba dále
vysvětlovat.

    Translates into English as:

    Source and destination network address, source and destination port does not need to be further explain.

    Looking at various source files you'll see "Not Tested" in the description.

    This author calls the project an experiment and it has not been updated in 2 years.

    I propose the project is broken and there may be nothing wrong with your compiler and make functions. To confirm your system is working download a simple calculator from github for gnome desktop that has 200 contributors and 243 releases: gnome-calculator. Compile this instead of your current choice that has no activity for two years and is called an experiment by the author.

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