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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom function undefined error

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:44:39 -0800
On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:34 PM, vijay wrote:

> Im writing a in wiretap/pacapng.c file which should be accessible from dumpcap.c. I have defined it in the pcapng.h header file and 
> also included the header #include "wiretap/pcapng.h" inside dumpcap.c. But still build fails in dumpcap.c with error that the function is undefined.
> 
> Is there anything should be done to make my function accessible inside dumpcap.c??

Yes.

Put it in pcapio.c, not in wiretap/pcapng.c; dumpcap isn't, and won't be, linked with Wiretap.