On Sep 26, 2025, at 10:46 AM, Jaap Keuter via Wireshark-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 2) The build configuration (as found in CmakeOptions.txt) uses 
> CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME equal to “Linux” to assume these libraries are available. 
> This may be too loose.

I'd replace "may be" with "is". There are a lot of Linux distributions, and 
systemd is not, it appears, a universally-acclaimed and universally-adopted 
feature.

> 3) The systemd libraries are only used to build the sdjournal extcap plugin, 
> so you don’t need it to build and run Wireshark itself.
> 
> In short, I would tweak the CmakeOptions.txt file to always set 
> BUILD_sdjournal to OFF.

So the appropriate CMakeLists.txt file should check whether the systemd 
libraries are present and only build sdjournal if they are.
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