Hello,

I need to use Tshark on an ARM system with limited RAM so I had to make a patch 
to produce a "lightweight" version of Tshark that can run on embedded systems.
As my company will have to provide the patch with the modified version of 
Tshark, I'm posting it to the ML as well in case someone find it useful.
This patch has been made for version 1.3.3 and reduces libwireshark.so to 25% 
of its size. It still contains a lot of protocols that I don't use but the size 
was ok for me, so I didn't spend more time to try to make it smaller.

My previous patch was put on http://wiki.wireshark.org/BuildingAndInstalling 
maybe this new one could be put there as well? If you find any obvious errors 
in it, don't hesitate to contact me.
Also, is there any plans to add configure options that disable large chunks of 
dissectors? A lot of people don't need anything else than ethernet/Wifi so it 
could save them a lot of RAM. Though, it would probably require a lot of 
testing and some arbitrary decisions to decide what to include or not.

Cheers,

Jean

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