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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using cf_callback_add from a plugin

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:49:52 -0700
On Apr 25, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Bruce, Joseph R (Joe) wrote:

> I still don't understand why this code works on the *nix side, but not
> Windows.  Any ideas there?

The dynamically-linked library systems used by most if not all UN*X systems and and the dynamically-linked library system used by Windows are different; in the UN*X systems, symbols in the main executable image are available to code loaded at run time, but that's not the case in Windows.