Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
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From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:46:27 +0000
On 20/01/2011 21:26, Dietfrid Mali wrote:

I could as well analyze the automake hell Wireshark comes with. ^_^
Btw, I would have happily used the Wireshark VS solution to see how to add spandsp codecs, but to my horror I found out that it used some nmake hell just as well ... and required bash (Cygwin/mingw?) which I don't have installed on my Windows machine (why should I).

If you take the time to setup a Windows build environment (basically Cygwin + Python + VS), then you can use the Visual Studio debugger.  Note that Wireshark is still built using nmake rather than a VS project but VS can attach to the process to debug it.

The reason that the windows build still uses other tools and nmake is that no-one has found the time and motivation to create, and most importantly maintain, a VS solution for Wireshark.

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Regards,

Graham Bloice