User Guide

Now it's time to build Wireshark ...

1. If you've closed cmd.exe in the meantime, prepare cmd.exe again

2. nmake -f Makefile.nmake all to build Wireshark

3. wait for Wireshark to compile - this may take a while!

4. run C:\wireshark\wireshark-gtk2\wireshark.exe and check if it starts

5. check Help/About if it shows your "private" program version, e.g.: Version

0.99.4-myprotocol123 - you might run a release version previously installed!

Tip: If compilation fails for suspicious reasons after you changed some source files try to distclean

the sources and make "all" again

2.2.11. Debug Environment Setup (XXX)

XXX - debug needs to be written, e.g. an idea is the create a simple MSVC 6 workspace/project(s)

to ease Visual Studio debugging

2.2.12. Optional: Create User's and Developer's Guide

Detailed information to build these guides can be found in the file docbook/README.txt in the

Wireshark sources.

2.2.13. Optional: Create a Wireshark Installer

Note: You should have successfully built Wireshark before doing the following!

If you want to build your own wireshark-setup.exe, you'll need NSIS.

1. NSIS: Download and install NSIS

You may check the MAKENSIS setting in the file config.nmake of the Wireshark sources.

2. vcredist_x86.exe : Download the C-Runtime redistributable for Visual C++ 2005 Express Edi-

tion (vcredist_x86.exe) and copy it into C:\wireshark-win32-libs

Beware of Visual Studio Service Packs!

If you have installed the Visual Studio Service Pack 1, you need a different vcre-

dist_x86.exe version! See Section 4.4, “Microsoft compiler toolchain (Win32 nat-

ive)”for details!

3. If you've closed cmd.exe in the meantime, prepare cmd.exe again

4. nmake -f Makefile.nmake packaging build Wireshark installer

5. run C:\wireshark\packaging\nsis\wireshark-setup-<version>.exe and test it - it's a good idea to

test also on a different machine than the developer machine.

Compiler dependent: This step depends on the compiler variant used, for other variants than the re-

commended Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition see the table at Section 4.4, “Microsoft compiler

toolchain (Win32 native)”!

Quick Setup