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

[Peter Wu]

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  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
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Feedback on Developer's Guide 3.3.0

[Pascal Quantin]

Hi David,

Le mer. 19 févr. 2020 à 17:47, Boyce, David  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).

Best regards,
Pascal.
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[Wireshark-dev] Feedback on Developer's Guide 3.3.0

[Boyce, David]

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?

Regards,

David Boyce
Senior Software Engineer

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