5.12. Lua (Optional)

The Lua library is used to add scripting support to Wireshark. Only Lua versions 5.1 and 5.2 are supported; the API has not been updated to work with versions 5.3 and later.

Unix

If this library isn’t already installed or available as a package for your platform, you can get it at https://www.lua.org/download.html.

Windows

We provide copies of the official packages at https://dev-libs.wireshark.org/windows/packages/.