Re: Help needed regarding plugin/.so file

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2014-05-21 15:27 GMT+02:00 Vishnu Bhatt <vishnu.bhatt () aricent com>:

>  Thanks for the reply. Do the plugins have backward compatibility? I mean
> I’ve version-1.10.3 rpm with me but the plugin was compiled with 1.4.0. So,
> how do I use it now?

Hi,

you have 99.99% chance it will not work as the backward compatibility of
APIs are not maintained between major releases. The only solution is to
recompile the plugin against 1.10.X branch (and fix any error that will
pop).
Or you downgrade to 1.4.0 release.

Pascal.


> *From:* wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] *On Behalf Of *Zadik, Maayan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 6:45 PM
> *To:* Developer support list for Wireshark
> *Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-dev] Help needed regarding plugin/.so file
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> I think SO is a compiled Linux plugin, which needs to be added under
> wireshark’s plugins directory (you should have something like:
> /usr/local/lib/wireshark/plugins/1.4.0/)
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> *From:* wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] *On Behalf Of *Vishnu Bhatt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 3:46 PM
> *To:* wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> *Subject:* [Wireshark-dev] Help needed regarding plugin/.so file
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> Hello,
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> Somebody has given me a plugin (.so file ) and he is saying that he has
> compiled it with wireshark version 1.4.0. Now my problem is I don’t know
> what to do with this file? Where should I add this file in the code? Any
> help would be appreciated.
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> Thanks
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