Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] regarding support of wireshark plugin (lua development)

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Shikhar K wrote:

> Does WIRESHARK supports LUA development on linux?

Yes - it supports Lua development on *all* platforms supported by Lua.

However, it (obviously) requires a version of Wireshark that's built  
with Lua, and for some unknown reason, building with Lua isn't the  
default, so a packaged version of Wireshark won't include Lua support  
unless the packager (presumably the Fedora project, in your case)  
explicitly configures it to do so.

If the Fedora package doesn't include Lua support, you'd have to build  
Wireshark yourself from source.

(Why *isn't* it the default?  Perhaps it should be - or perhaps "build  
with Lua if it's available" should be the default.)