Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] regarding support of wireshark plugin (lua development)

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just checked Debian Lenny, it does include Lua, so does Ubuntu from Hardy up.
Too bad they still don't use privilege separation offered by dumpcap though.

Thanx,
Jaap

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Shikhar K wrote:
>
> > Does WIRESHARK supports LUA development on linux?
>
> Yes - it supports Lua development on *all* platforms supported by Lua.
>
> However, it (obviously) requires a version of Wireshark that's built  
> with Lua, and for some unknown reason, building with Lua isn't the  
> default, so a packaged version of Wireshark won't include Lua support  
> unless the packager (presumably the Fedora project, in your case)  
> explicitly configures it to do so.
>
> If the Fedora package doesn't include Lua support, you'd have to build  
> Wireshark yourself from source.
>
> (Why *isn't* it the default?  Perhaps it should be - or perhaps "build  
> with Lua if it's available" should be the default.)