Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Feedback on Developer's Guide 3.3.0

[Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Pascal Quantin wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Le mer. 19 févr. 2020 à 17:47, Boyce, David <David.Boyce@xxxxxxxxxx> a
> écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I notice that the developer’s guide does not appear to have any Wireshark
> > C API Reference Manual equivalent to the Lua API Reference Manual of
> > Chapter 11.  Given that 1.4.1 emphasises that ‘(almost) any dissector is
> > written in plain old ANSI C’, this seems to be a strange omission.  Is
> > there a good reason for this?
> >
> 
> You have a lot of documentation in the doc/ folder of the Wireshark source
> code. I guess the fact that it is located here and not in the developer's
> guide is a mix of legacy and that, to build a C dissector, you need to have
> Wireshark source code anyway (which is not the case for Lua).

We have some documentation generated from the source tree by Doxygen. It
was a bit challenging to find it, it does not appear to be linked from
the website or source tree. Anyway, here it is:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsar_html/modules.html
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl