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 ...
If you've closed cmd.exe in the meantime, prepare cmd.exe again
nmake -f Makefile.nmake all to build Wireshark
wait for Wireshark to compile - this may take a while!
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.
Carl Norum
2010-01-27 01:47:53
Ah I see. Its the simple things that elude me at times, that and I'm used to just clicking a compile button and seeing if it works or not. :) Thanks for the link as well, I think that'll help me.
Shawn
2010-01-27 02:03:16