Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Buidling Wireshark using MingW/MSyS on WIndows ?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Smith wrote:
> I have nothing against Microsoft nor open source, I just chose Eclipse
> as my build environment as Im used to it on Linux. Furthermore, I see
> this as a training/tutorial exercise, as I desire to build some other
> open source software the same way. By the way, MingW/MSYS let's you
> run "./configure ;make all ; make install" on Windows, and most of
> these projects come with Unix style Makefiles/automake and are pretty
> hard to get compiled using Microsoft's IDE.
>
>
>   
For better or worse Wireshark on Windows is built as a windows app using 
the MS toolchain.  Although there is the standard *nix stuff for 
building on *nix platforms I don't think anyone has attempted to use 
that on windows for a long time.  I believe that someone once managed to 
get it to build under Cygwin.

I wish you luck in your endeavours.

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Regards,

Graham Bloice