Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How to compile and execute the source code of wireshark?
On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:17 AM, JAI BHAGWAN YADAV <saurav.yadav0005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am a beginner,
> Q- How to compile and execute the source code of wireshark so that
> (i) Whenever I will compile and execute it, it will also run wireshark
You succeeded in doing that.
> (ii) I will use printf firstly so I can see the output at terminal
>
> O.S. used: 64 bit, Ubuntu 12.04
> What I tried?
> I have tried ./autogen.sh It run successfully.
OK, that's what we'd expect to happen.
> then ./configure It also run successfully, takes 2 minutes to execute on my system (1 GB RAM, virtual machine).
OK, that's what we'd expect to happen; there are a lot of tests to perform, so it will take a while to run.
> then make It also run successfully, takes 15-20 approx minutes to execute.
OK, that's what we'd expect to happen; there's a lot of Wireshark source code, so it will take a while to run. If the host of your VM is a multi-core/multiprocessor machine, and the VM is configured to support more than one core, you might want to use the "-j" flag to run compilations in parallel; I do my compiles on a 4-core MacBook Pro, with two-way multithreading on each core, and "make -j 8" makes the compilation run a *lot* faster.
> Only warnings can be seen in between of these execution but no error occured.
OK, that's what we'd expect to happen.
> But also no wireshark window get opened,
And so is that! "make" *compiles* a program, it doesn't run it, and it's not *supposed* to run it.
> it will only open when I execute the command ./wireshark. So, please tell me the correct way and order to write all the commands.
The correct way to write the commands is:
./autogen.sh - but only if this is the first time you build after checking the source code out from Git; if you make a change to Wireshark source after that, you shouldn't need to run autogen.sh again
./configure - but only if this is the first time you build after checking the source code out from Git; if you make a change to Wireshark source after that, you shouldn't need to run configure again
make
./wireshark
Yes, all four commands. If you want wireshark to *run*, you need that fourth command. *That's* the command for the "execute" step in "compile and execute the source code of wireshark" (or, rather, execute the *binary* code produced by compiling the source code).
