Dynamic linking with libpcap

[Munish Dayal <munish.dayal () aricent com>]

Hi,

-- I posted this query on Wireshark dev mailing list. But I guess its more suitable for this mailing list, as this 
holds for any application using libpcap. If Guy or someone could pls help. ---

I have built Wireshark from source on my Linux RHEL 4 system, that has libpcap version 0.8.3 installed.
But when I try to run this Wireshark on a Linux system with RHEL 5 (libpcap version 0.9.4), I get an error:

"error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.8.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Obviously, Wireshark is looking for the same libpcap version as the one with which it was built.

My question is: how can I build Wireshark so that it is not statically linked to a particular libpcap version? Is there 
a way to dynamically link Wireshark with libpcap ?
Ideally it should be able to run on any system that has the same or newer version of libpcap available.

Regards,
Munish


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