Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does libwsutil need to be its own library?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
> > I was just curious.  I rarely install Wireshark on machines I do
> > development on (I run it from the build directory), so when I installed
> > it for a change that the little ~22k libwsutil.so.0 was installed :).  I
> > was thinking of it from more of a "do any non-Wireshark programs really
> > need the wsutil shared library out there?" perspective compared to
> > libwireshark that I know other programs utilize and libwiretap that is
> > possibly used by other programs as well.  Thanks.
>
> I think any non-Wireshark programs that link with either libwireshark or 
> libwiretap also, in effect, link with libwsutil, as they have to, given 
> that, as I remember, both libwireshark and libwiretap call routines in 
> libwsutil.  (They might not *explicitly* link with libwsutil, as I think 
> most if not all UN*Xes support linking shared libraries with other 
> shared libraries, and if our libwireshark and libwiretap are blinked 
> with libwsutil, linking with libwireshark or libwiretap is sufficient to 
> cause libwsutil to be linked in at startup time, but they still *depend* 
> on libwsutil.)

I tried linking libwireshark and libwiretap against libwsutil (in rev 
26218) so the executables wouldn't to, but it didn't work, at least on 
Ubuntu 8.04:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1677#c23