Re: Help on installing wireshark on Windows XP

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Don't work in cygwin window. Do nmake in 'DOS box'
>
> Send from my iPhone
>
> On 27 okt 2009, at 12:59, Siva S <s.siva () gdatech co in> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I am trying to install wireshark in windows XP. I have installed
> > WinPcap also. I was using cygwin to install wireshark.
> >    I have added one dissector parser code which is working fine in
> > linux. After doing "make distclean" in linux environment, and I have
> > taken the same source code to install it in windows machine.
> >
> >    If I am doing ./configure, it was showing the error "error: Can't
> > link with library libpcap.".
> >    Can anybody help me on this?. Please correct me if I was wrong.
> >
> > -- 
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Siva 
To amplify Japp's advice, Wireshark on Windows is built with the Visual
Studio toolset using nmake.  Cygwin is required, but only for some small
tools not natively provided on Windows.

Read the Developers Guide on tool setup:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice

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