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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:23:24+00:00

I would consider myself a fairly competent programmer with experience in Java and VB.net.

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I would consider myself a fairly competent programmer with experience in Java and VB.net. My latest swim around the programming lake is having me modify a program written in C. (The program is Wireshark, an open source network analyzing tool.) I followed the instructions here http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html and simply don’t know where to go from there. I’d like to use Visual Studio 2008 to work with the code if possible, but will do whatever is necessary. (I’m a total noob at using command prompt to do anything though.)

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    If you followed those steps, then you’ve built it. I’ll copy Section 2.2.10 here.

    2.2.10. Build Wireshark

    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

    Just make changes in the code, do these steps over again, and presto! you’ve modified the program. You may want to bone up on C debuggers if you’re doing anything very complicated.

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