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

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:45:29AM -0700, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > 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. Pleas

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

2010-10-25 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
Hi Christopher/Guy, Thanks for the quick response. Let me give it a try. Regards dharani On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Christopher Maynard < chris.mayn...@gtech.com> wrote: > Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan writes: > > > I am trying to reduce the size. I would like to explore various ways like

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

2010-10-25 Thread Guy Harris
On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Christopher Maynard wrote: > TYou can also try building "--with-plugins=no" ...which you might have to do *anyway* if you want a static build: "static" means "100% static" (rather than "statically link with some libraries), and "100% static" means, at least on som

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

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Maynard
Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan 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 I did see some pointers related to this but it looks like they are outdated.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/disse

[Wireshark-dev] Building pruned-down version of tshark

2010-10-25 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
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