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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] lua starter (tshark -X is not working)

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:55:21 -0800
On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Does "tshark -v" say "with Lua" somewhere in its output?
> 
> Send us the entire output of "tshark -v", so we know what version of TShark you're using.

If this is you:

	https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/39777/canot-run-lua-script-in-tshark

then the answer to Jeff's question is "no", and that's why it's not working - the version of Wireshark you have doesn't include support for Lua scripts, as it's not linked with the Lua interpreter.