On 20/12/2011 16:36, Jaap Keuter wrote:
Just for my information, is this the crux of your
location independance?
find_package(Wireshark)
include_directories
(${WIRESHARK_INCLUDE_DIRS})
Yes, the cmake/FindWireshark.cmake file (which is executed with the
find_package) locates the libwireshark.so library and the wireshark
headers (e.g. /usr/include/wireshark).
and
does this the mean you need to have the Wireshark development
tree available anyway?
No, you don't need the full wireshark development tree available.
You just need the headers and the .so library. In Ubuntu these
development files are provided by the libwireshark-dev package. Of
course, if you compiled the development version of wireshark
yourself, the plugin template will locate those development files
(provided that the libwireshark.so and the headers are in a "sane"
position, i.e. a standard location or a location given in the
appropriate environment variables).
The only reason why all tutorials tell you to develop your plugin in
the wireshark source tree is that it's easy to find the headers and
link to the library (because everything is already set up in the
make files). If you can locate the libwireshark.so library of your
wireshark version and the installed wireshark headers by some other
way (I use the cmake script, you might just as well write an
autoconf snippet), there's nothing that stops you from developing
out of the wireshark source tree.
However, if you have wireshark installed from packages and compiled
your own version, then the wrong library might be found and linked
to. In that case, your plugin will not work and might even crash
wireshark at startup.
And my CMakeList.txt file makes sure the plugin is installed in
~/.wireshark/plugins/, which is a directory where wireshark will
look for plugins. If you want to install it globally, you'll need to
copy the .so file of your plugin to e.g.
/usr/lib/wireshark/libwireshark1/plugins/ .
Cheers,
Reinhold
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