Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] .so and .la files
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:31:55 -0700
On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Eloy Paris wrote:

> Whoops, sorry for replying to myself but I just realized that you're 
> talking about a plugin, which is something that perhaps is "loaded via 
> libltdl in a way that requires that meta-information [in the .la file]". 

We don't use libltdl to load plugins - we use GLib's wrappers around the native run-time loader - so the .la file probably isn't needed.