Hi All,
I am new to wireshark development and this mailing list.
I am porting wireshark to an embedded platform. I managed to cross-compile wireshark (tshark, mainly) and run it on the 32-bit PowerPC target. However, the executables and shared libraries take about 80MB. Please see the file sizes below:
dharani$ du -c -B 1024 `find . -type f`
12 ./tshark
948 ./.libs/lt-tshark
77540 ./epan/.libs/libwireshark.so.0.0.1
912 ./wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
12 ./test.pcap
76 ./wsutil/.libs/libwsutil.so.0.0.0
79500 total <<<<----
dharani$
I am trying to reduce the size. I would like to explore various ways like remove support for some protocols (USB, ATM, etc) and do static build, etc. I did see some pointers related to this but it looks like they are outdated.
So here are my questions:
- Is there an updated patch file for the latest version with which I can remove unwanted protocols from wireshark? If so, I can use it.
- Any suggestions on how I can build a static version? Because the shared library takes lot of space and I believe there may be many unwanted functions.
Request any pointers/suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Regards
dharani
