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Re: Snort 3.0 - Luajit


From: Russ via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 14:01:35 -0500



On 2/9/18 11:05 AM, oleg gv wrote:

2018-02-09 17:38 GMT+03:00 Russ via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org <mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>>:

    LuaJIT is a hard requirement for Snort 3.0 as it is used for
    configuration.  It is also used for optional script plugins for
    loggers, rule options, and appid detectors.

    Do you have any particular concern about LuaJIT?


No, but I want to compile snort3.0 for platform that is not comaptible for LuaJit . Can I remove simply LuaJit support from snort3 or (more preferable) use Lua instead of LuaJit ??
It won't build today with Lua in lieu of LuaJIT but we will look into that.

Can you tell us which platform you are working on?

Thanks for reply.


    There will be a beta out in a couple months.


    On 2/9/18 9:16 AM, oleg gv via Snort-users wrote:
    Hello, I saw dependency on luajit in snort 3.0.

    Is it really nessesary, for waht reasons it is used in snort?
    (lua rules mainly?)

    Can I not use LuaJit at all - may be configure option may exist
    in future?

    Or it's hardcoded firmly and snort strictly depends on it ??

    Thanks!

    PS: snort 3.0 release date - when? is it known?


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