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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] .so and .la files

From: Eloy Paris <peloy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:04:14 -0400
On 10/05/2010 01:57 PM, Eloy Paris wrote:

[...]

Current Wireshark 1.4.x packages in the Debian experimental distribution
do not ship the .la files, and I verified that I can build Network
Expect, an external application that uses libwireshark services, just
fine against the respective -dev packages.

So long story short, yes, the .so is the only thing someone would need,
but if you find otherwise I'd love to hear about it.

Whoops, sorry for replying to myself but I just realized that you're talking about a plugin, which is something that perhaps is "loaded via libltdl in a way that requires that meta-information [in the .la file]". In that case the .la is needed. I guess the best thing to do would be to test if things work without the .la file...

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-
netexpect.org