error when loading the plugin in wireshark

[Wes Fournier]

Hi, I'm getting an error message when wireshark loads the decoder
plugin on startup:

Couldn't load module /home/wes/.wireshark/plugins/fast.so: /home/
wes/.wireshark/plugins/fast.so: undefined symbol:
dissector_delete_uint

Any ideas on why this would be occurring? I should note that I'm
building the plugin directly from the source rather than using one of
the release packages. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64). I am using
the latest version of the wireshark source from their repository.

Wes

[grencez]

On Aug 31, 9:49 am, Wes Fournier <w...@lasalletech.com> wrote:
> Couldn't load module /home/wes/.wireshark/plugins/fast.so: /home/
> wes/.wireshark/plugins/fast.so: undefined symbol:
> dissector_delete_uint

I was able to reproduce this by compiling against Wireshark 1.6.2
(latest) and running with Wireshark 1.2.7 (from Ubuntu repository).

So the solution is to either use the newest version of Wireshark
(preferable) or try to build against the old version (unsure if this
works). Either way, the versions should match.

That said, this might affect users of the binary distributions...
which is probably ok since the .deb doesn't seem to work anyway.