Chris Thanks for the reply.
My dissector worked when I updated libs and sources from 1.2 to 1.4. So I figured it would work from 1.4 to 1.6. But it did not. I did get the latest libs and sources and I did recompile everything...but I ended up with some errors (which I will need to dig through). But I got this one error that I am not sure what it means. Wireshark (version 1.6) did start up properly. I was able to load a .pcap capture file....but when I click on one of the rows in the tree...I got the below error. Any thoughts..?? The error was: 22:26:55 Err new_fi->hfinfo->type 28 <FT_PCRE> not handled Thanks, Brian > Brian Oleksa <oleksab@...> writes: > >> I have updated to the latest sources today as well as the latest libs. >> I put my dissector in place and it crashes. It ran just fine on 1.4.X > > So you previously built a plugin dissector against 1.4.x and dropped it > into the > 1.6.0 plugins directory expecting it to work? This has never been > supported > because we have yet to lock down the API/ABI, but even if we did, there's > no > reason to expect a 1.4 plugin to work against 1.6. I don't think we'd > ever go > so far as to guarantee binary compatibility across anything other than > micro > versions. You will simply have to recompile your plugin against the 1.6 > sources > if you intend to use it with 1.6.x. > >> What are the major changes...?? > > Read the release notes for the major changes. > >> WHY is this always a problem. Where can I get help with fixing my >> problems..?? > > Why? Because Wireshark continues to evolve. > > Where can you get help? -wireshark-devel, ask.wireshark.org, > README.developer, > the Wireshark source code, your colleagues, someone you pay for help, etc. > Basically, the usual places. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
