Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Pointers needed for building Wireshark 2.6.3 on a Raspberry
From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:11:51 -0700
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Geoff Lee <geoff.lee99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m hoping you can give me some pointers about how to compile Wireshark
>> 2.6.3 on a Raspberry Pi Model 3B, with Raspbian Stretch as the OS.
>>
>> I have wireshark 2.2.6, installed via apt-get, but am experiencing a problem
>> which I have been told is solved in more uptodate versions of wireshark.
>> Unfortunately I haven’t been able to locate any later versions compiled for
>> the Raspberry Pi, which I understand uses an ARMv7 processor.
>>
>> It’s my first time attempting a compile from source using CMake (I did use
>> make once about 5 years ago on another project – and that took me about 2
>> months to get working L ).  I’ve read a couple of CMake tutorials, but there
>> is rather a large gap between the basic “hello world” examples, and really
>> substantial project like wireshark!, on top of which I know very little
>> about C and C++.
>
> So, assuming you have the sources, you should be able to do:
>
> 1. mkdir wireshark-build
> 2. cd wireshark-build
> 3. cmake /path/to/the/wireshark/source  # This might just be cmake ../wireshark
> 4. make
> 5. Wait a long while
>
> If step 3 complains about something missing use apt-get or whatever to
> install it, and run step 3 again.

Hmmm, now that I have looked at your CMakeError.log, it looks like
maybe you need a newer version of cmake.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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