Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Interesting problem with tshark - understood and solved
On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Bryant Eastham wrote:
I now understand the problem, and have found the problem in the code.
I should have mentioned that I am running tshark from a build, not
an installed, directory. It appears that tshark.c is missing the call
"init_progfile_dir(argv[0]);". Without this call, the data directory
is never initialized and defaults on Windows to the C:/Program
Files/...
directory.
On UN*X, it works without the call; the program file directory is
used only to run dumpcap, which tshark currently doesn't do.
On Windows, it doesn't work without the call; the program file
directory is also the data directory.
I've checked in a fix to make the call (unconditionally, as, in the
future, it might be useful to have an option on UN*X to use the
directory in which the executable exists as the data file directory,
to make it possible to run Wireshark/tshark from the build directory
and have it pick up data files and plugins without having to install
them).
