Wireshark plugin - dlg_utils in dissector

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I've been trying to incorporate some GUI utils in a dissector which is being developed as a plugin for Wireshark. The functionalities I need are the ones declared in ui/gtk/dlg_utils.h, specially the function dlg_window_new. I have linked libgtkui.lib in the relevant Makefile, but this library apparently requires the linkage of many other ones. Should libgtkui.lib be kind of stand-alone? If it should, what is being done wrong? If it should not, which other libraries should be linked with it?

Thanks in advance!

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I've been trying to incorporate some GUI utils in a dissector

That's not supported; there is no guarantee that it will work. (Dissectors are linked into TShark, which does not have and will not ever have a GUI, does not link with any GUI library, and is intended to be able to be built even if the target platform has no support for a GUI, just support for the command line.)

The GUI should be implemented using a tap; see doc/README.tapping and various taps in the ui/gtk source directory.