Building pruned-down version of tshark

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani () gmail com>]

Hi All,

I am new to wireshark development and this mailing list.

I am porting wireshark to an embedded platform. I managed to cross-compile
wireshark (tshark, mainly) and run it on the 32-bit PowerPC target. However,
the executables and shared libraries take about 80MB. Please see the file
sizes below:

dharani$ du -c -B 1024 `find . -type f`
12      ./tshark
948     ./.libs/lt-tshark
77540   ./epan/.libs/libwireshark.so.0.0.1
912     ./wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
12      ./test.pcap
76      ./wsutil/.libs/libwsutil.so.0.0.0
*79500   total <<<<----*
dharani$

I am trying to reduce the size. I would like to explore various ways like
remove support for some protocols (USB, ATM, etc) and do static build, etc.
I did see some pointers related to this but it looks like they are outdated.

So here are my questions:

- Is there an updated patch file for the latest version with which I can
remove unwanted protocols from wireshark? If so, I can use it.
- Any suggestions on how I can build a static version? Because the shared
library takes lot of space and I believe there may be many unwanted
functions.

Request any pointers/suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Regards
dharani

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