Call register_stat_menu_item from a plugin

["Alistair Evans" <evans_alistair () hotmail com>]

Hi,

I'm writing a plugin for a custom protocol. The dissector portion is working fine, as is adding a tap for that 
protocol. I would now like to add a menu item to the statistics menu that allows me to show a window with extra info 
created by the tap. I can build with GTK in order to generate the window I want to create, but I'm having problems 
adding the menu item.

After looking through some of the code in wireshark, I can see that I need to call register_stat_menu_item in order to 
create that menu item. With this in, the code compiles, but does not link. I believe this is because I need to link the 
ui library that the register_stat_menu_item method is compiled into (libui.lib), but doing so raises a massive number 
of other linker errors. This is the only method from the UI that I actually need to call in the plugin, since 
everything else can be created and managed separately.

Is there a way I can call that function from my plugin (even if it means manually calling the method by finding a 
pointer to it at runtime)?

Cheers

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