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| author | Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net> | 2019-06-09 08:06:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com> | 2019-06-09 23:17:31 +0000 |
| commit | 6476ec79aaea3f90fa840c787dbe1bfeb0b01176 (patch) | |
| tree | 92be995fda71febe68aec0398fe84070beb638f2 /doc | |
| parent | f93edf223b697f7ffbb577acf8312acf6637bf83 (diff) | |
Document why extcap utilities can't be run "by hand" on Windows
Bug: 15591
Change-Id: Icb8246ba196df026736ce1e54eb2ace2c7cd49b0
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/33530
Petri-Dish: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/extcap.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/extcap.pod b/doc/extcap.pod index c268acfacf..171e3a6dbf 100644 --- a/doc/extcap.pod +++ b/doc/extcap.pod @@ -29,13 +29,19 @@ called by the GUI in a row. In the following chapters we will refer to them as "the extcaps". Extcaps may be any binary or script within the extcap directory. Please note, that scripts -need to be executable without prefacing a script interpreter before the call. To go deeper -into the extcap utility development, please refer to README.extcap. +need to be executable without prefacing a script interpreter before the call. WINDOWS USER: Because of restrictions directly calling the script may not always work. In such a case, a batch file may be provided, which then in turn executes the script. Please refer to doc/extcap_example.py for more information. +When Wireshark launches an extcap, it automatically adds its installation path +(c:\Program Files\Wireshark\) to the DLL search path so that the extcap library dependencies +can be found (it is not designed to be launched by hand). This is done on purpose. There should +only be extcap programs (executable, python scripts, ...) in the extcap folder to reduce the startup +time and not have Wireshark trying to execute other file types. + + =head1 GRAMMAR ELEMENTS Grammar elements: |