Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] conflict when built with OpenSSL on Mac OS X

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:
> I noticed that when I build --with-ssl wireshark cannot read any file.
>
> If I compile without it works OK.
>
> We had a "similar" report on Solaris where WS crashed when reading the
> DTDs as soon as the reporter build it --without-ssl it worked.
>
> I did not further dig into the issue.
>
>
> My question is what is OpenSSL used for?
> Can we replace it with GnuTLS?
> What needs to be modified to drop this dep?
> Does someone else wants to help me in getting rid of OpenSSL?

Net-SNMP seems to need it.  If I configure --with-net-snmp but without 
SSL, 'configure' says:

> configure: error: Net-SNMP requires openssl but ssl not enabled

Personally I don't use either, but I've seen questions on the lists that 
seem to imply people do use the SNMP stuff.