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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Lua compile problems

From: Sebastien Tandel <sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:02:10 -0300
>> Lua is an interpretive language with an interpreter that's somewhat 
>> compact and embeddable.  Wireshark can be built with Lua support - the 
>> Windows version we distribute is, I think, and other binary versions 
>> (various Linux and BSD packages, etc.) might be built with it either.
> 
> Hmm, the version I had with my distro (Debian Etch) was 0.99.4 but still didn't have Lua built in.  So I downloaded the latest version from the website, 0.99.6, and configured it with Lua support.  Here's the command I used:
> 
> piers@akane:~/src/wireshark-0.99.6$ ./configure --with-lua=/usr/include/lua5.1/

What if specifying --with-lua=/usr/include? The lua test during the
configure is looking for 'lua5.1/lua.h'

Regards,
Sebastien Tandel