Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] About build-in dissector

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kovarththanan Rajaratnam wrote:
> Hey,
>
> hui.song.m wrote:
> > Hi ~
> > I have written a dissector to decode my own protocol as a plugin of 
> > wireshark.
> > Now I want to learn how to add a build-in dissector to wireshark.
> > I have tried to modify both "wireshark/epan/dissectors/register.c" and 
> > "wireshark/epan/dissectors/makefile.nmake", which didn't work out.
> >  
> > Will someone helps me with the exactly  steps of adding a build-in 
> > dissector to wireshark......
> >  
> > Thanks a lot ~!
>
> It should be as simple as adding your source and header files to 
> DISSECTOR_SRC and DISSECTOR_INCLUDES respectively in 
> epan/dissectors/Makefile.common


...and if you've changed register.c by hand (which you shouldn't do), 
you'll probably want do delete it so that it will be regenerated.