From 29de8baed54d33d30732dae602ca1d035942a622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Kaiser <wireshark@kaiser.cx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:24:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] mention gcrypt wrapper in README.developer

svn path=/trunk/; revision=47812
---
 doc/README.developer | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer
index 1b8ca452cd..028571b149 100644
--- a/doc/README.developer
+++ b/doc/README.developer
@@ -438,6 +438,11 @@ platform-dependent implementations and platform-independent APIs, such
 as the routines in epan/filesystem.c, allowing the code that calls it to
 be written portably without #ifdefs.
 
+Wireshark uses libgcrypt as general-purpose crypto library. To use it from
+your dissector, protect libgcrypt calls with #ifdef HAVE_LIBGCRYPT. Don't
+include gcrypt.h directly, include the wrapper file wsutil/wsgcrypt.h
+instead.
+
 1.1.2 String handling
 
 Do not use functions such as strcat() or strcpy().