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

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The dependency on register.h is a little more basic, as it 
> speaks to how we handle dissectors.  I've considered a number of 
> possible ways around this problem.  

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4) Have "epan_init()" take, as arguments, pointers to the routines to
   be used to register non-plugin dissectors and to register handoffs
   for non-plugin dissectors, pass those arguments to "proto_init()",
   and have "proto_init()" call through those pointers rather than
   directly calling "register_all_protocols()" and
   "register_all_protocol_handoffs()".

> 2)	Convert the existing dissctor base into one jumbo plugin.

5) Put the existing dissector base into libethereal, which would also
   include "register.c".