>> Lua is an interpretive language with an interpreter that's somewhat
>> compact and embeddable. Wireshark can be built with Lua support - the
>> Windows version we distribute is, I think, and other binary versions
>> (various Linux and BSD packages, etc.) might be built with it either.
>
> Hmm, the version I had with my distro (Debian Etch) was 0.99.4 but still didn't have Lua built in. So I downloaded the latest version from the website, 0.99.6, and configured it with Lua support. Here's the command I used:
>
> piers@akane:~/src/wireshark-0.99.6$ ./configure --with-lua=/usr/include/lua5.1/
What if specifying --with-lua=/usr/include? The lua test during the
configure is looking for 'lua5.1/lua.h'
Regards,
Sebastien Tandel