Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Undefined symbol tvb_find_tvb

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

Chris Maynard wrote:
> Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@...> writes:
>
> > Mariusz Okrój wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm getting "Couldn't load module
> > > /home/marok/wireshark/lib/wireshark/plugins/1.6.0/xmpp.so:
> > > /home/marok/wireshark/lib/wireshark/plugins/1.6.0/xmpp.so: undefined
> > > symbol: tvb_find_tvb" during the wireshark startup.
> > >
> > > What may cause this problem? I'm using many functions from tvbuff.h,
> > > but only using this one the problem occurs.
> > I don't see a response to this, but the problem is/was that this 
> > function is not in epan/libwireshark.def (so the function is not 
> > exported from libwireshark).
> >
> > Chris fixed that in this revision:
> >
> > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=38169
>
> Sorry I forgot to respond.  Thanks Jeff.  I actually wasn't sure if this was the
> problem or not in Mariusz's case because wouldn't this only be a problem for a
> Windows plugin (i.e., xmpp.dll)?  Well in any case, the function wasn't

Remember that since r35145 (and probably some other revs as the kinks 
got worked out), libtool-based builds only export the listed symbols. 
(Hmmm, I wonder if cmake has that same functionality.)