Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Is there a way to change the path (location) of wireshark PLUGINs?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yenan wrote:

> My main concern is, I am willing to build a wireshark plugin dissector 
> outside of wireshark directory, in Linux.
> For example, my wireshark source code is in $home/wireshark/ , but want 
> to include the plugin in $home/plugin/ which is independant from 
> wireshark directory, can I use the configure option:--with-plugins[=DIR] 
> , to achieve my goal?

That will probably work, as long as you're willing to have *ALL* of 
Wireshark's plugins installed in $HOME/plugin.  Given that Wireshark 
already looks in $HOME/.wireshark/plugins, I'm not sure what the 
advantage of using $HOME/plugin as the system plugin directory would be.

> System plugin =  plugin install in wireshark/plugin, personalplugin 
> directory =  $HOME/.wireshark/plugins, is that what you mean?

Yes.  Those are your two choices for where to put plugins.