Re: Porting Ethereal dissectors to Wireshark

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

Gustavo wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm trying to port some dissectors from Ethereal to Wireshark plugins. They work  and build without any problems in 
> Ethereal (version 0.99.0) but when I try to separate and build them in Wireshark I have a lot of linking (unresolved 
> symbol) problems. It seems like that functions/data structures in ethereal files (and needed and included by the 
> dissectors) have been removed or renamed in the corresponding Wireshark files (usually located under the epan 
> directory). 
> If I import in the plugin the Ethereal version of the included files I can build some plugins (for others there are 
> too many files to import).
>
> Is it so difficult to port a dissector from Ethereal to Wireshark? Reading the code they seems quite similar. Am I 
> doing something wrong? Is there any guide dedicated to the transition from Ethereal to Wireshark?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> G

Hi,

Have a look at doc/README.plugins in the Wireshark source tree. At the end is 
some discussion how to port forward old style dissectors.

Thanx,
Jaap
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