Whatever you do, please don't make it so it HAS to be a shared library.
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Ramirez [mailto:gilramir@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: Ed Warnicke
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] shared libraries
>
>
> Ed Warnicke wrote:
> >
> > Is there a reason that libethereal, libdfilter, libftypes,
> libwiretap,
> > and libui aren't being built and installed as shared libraries?
> >
> > I know there is some mention of doing this in the epan directory,
> > but I was wondering if there was a good reason this hadn't
> been done yet.
> >
> > Ed
>
>
> There's no reason not to ship wiretap as a shared libary.
> Libethereal, however, still needs a little cleanup. There are some
> functions
> that it uses that are in the dissectors code. I tried it one time, but
> I don't remember exactly which functions. It had to do with address
> types
> used in packet.c that exist in the dissectors.
>
> Hmm, maybe some better documentation on how to use wiretap would be
> good.
> Once its a shared library, there's a better chance that other projects
> will
> want to use it.
>
> libdfilter and libftypes were meant to always be archives. When
> libethereal
> is a shared library, libftypes and libdfilter will be archives of PIC
> objects
> that are linked into libethereal.
>
> Libui was also never meant to be a shared library.
>
> --gilbert
>
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