Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] shared libraries

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Note that once libethereal is a shared library, we may be able to get
rid of the #ifdef PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE stuff - I think that on
Windows, one DLL can import stuff from another DLL, even if it can't
import it from the main program as can be done on most UNIX systems.