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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Has anybody successfully built a static version of Wireshark

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:36:24 -0700
On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

> Is there *any* platform on which you can build a 100% statically-linked Wireshark or TShark *and* have support for plugins?  If not, there's probably not much point in leaving in any support for it.

...where by "it" in "leaving in any support for it" I'm not referring to a statically-linked Wireshark or TShark, I'm referring to one that is statically-linked *and* supports loading plugins.