Hi, You've forced the configure script into thinking it can build with Lua support. It can't until you install a package that provides liblua5.1-dev . In short: you need the Lua development package in order to build applications with Lua interpreter.
Thanx, Jaap Piers Kittel wrote: > Guy, > > Thanks so much for your quick reply! > >> Lua is an interpretive language with an interpreter that's somewhat >> compact and embeddable. Wireshark can be built with Lua support - the >> Windows version we distribute is, I think, and other binary versions >> (various Linux and BSD packages, etc.) might be built with it either. > > Hmm, the version I had with my distro (Debian Etch) was 0.99.4 but still > didn't have Lua built in. So I downloaded the latest version from the > website, 0.99.6, and configured it with Lua support. Here's the command I > used: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/wireshark-0.99.6$ ./configure > --with-lua=/usr/include/lua5.1/ > > Then the final result was: > > The Wireshark package has been configured with the following options. > Build wireshark : yes > Build tshark : yes > Build capinfos : yes > Build editcap : yes > Build dumpcap : yes > Build mergecap : yes > Build text2pcap : yes > Build idl2wrs : yes > Build randpkt : yes > Build dftest : yes > > Install setuid : no > Use plugins : yes > Build lua plugin : yes > Build rtp_player : no > Use GTK+ v2 library : yes > Use threads : no > Build profile binaries : no > Use pcap library : yes > Use zlib library : yes > Use pcre library : no > Use kerberos library : no > Use GNU ADNS library : no > Use GNU crypto library : no > Use SSL crypto library : no > Use IPv6 name resolution : yes > Use Net-SNMP library : no > Use gnutls library : no > > But when I started off the compile, and it got to the Lua module, it exited > fatally with the error snippet: > > In file included from ./wslua_tvb.c:31: > ./wslua.h:40:17: error: lua.h: No such file or directory > ./wslua.h:41:20: error: lualib.h: No such file or directory > ./wslua.h:42:21: error: lauxlib.h: No such file or directory > > What am I doing wrong and how do I fix this please? > > Thanks very much for your time in advance! > > Regards - Piers _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
