Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building pruned-down version of tshark

[Christopher Maynard <Chris.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@...> writes:

> 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did see some pointers related to this but it looks like they are outdated.

You might try editing epan/dissectors/Makefile.common, removing all the
protocols of no interest to you.  You can also try building "--with-plugins=no"
if none of the plugin dissectors interest you.