Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Plugins all reported as type 'file type'

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-01-2018 23:12, João Valverde wrote:
> On 14-01-2018 19:48, Guy Harris wrote:
> > On Jan 14, 2018, at 9:49 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that the current way of registering plugins (dissector, 
> > > wiretap or
> > > codec) doesn't really work well. Maybe this is limited to source builds,
> >
> > As far as I know, it's limited to running from an autotools source build.
> >
> > The problem is that, in autotools source builds, the plugin binary 
> > files are all in the source directories of the plugins, not in the 
> > expected subdirectories; CMake builds put them in the appropriate 
> > subdirectories under "run".
>
> This requires changing the source tree to fix, by moving /plugins to 
> /epan/plugins. If we had bundled wiretap plugins, those would go in 
> /wiretap/plugins. We don't, so libwiretap should find nothing at all 
> when running from the build dir.
>
> I'm pressed for time right now, I'll get to that when I can.

In progress.