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| author | João Valverde <j@v6e.pt> | 2023-01-31 00:22:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com> | 2023-01-31 12:28:12 +0000 |
| commit | b376b340af8e397906148e48325d97cb65026ff8 (patch) | |
| tree | 945734e9ca8f96ba9a492966f02b4dac257f7172 /README.msys2 | |
| parent | 25544e4d4f025ca3a137951cd7c8503da94093c8 (diff) | |
MSYS2: Update README
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.msys2 | 37 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/README.msys2 b/README.msys2 index bcb44a9457..410499bbf8 100644 --- a/README.msys2 +++ b/README.msys2 @@ -1,35 +1,37 @@ -This document contains instructions to build and install Wireshark on Windows +This document contains instructions on how to build and install Wireshark on Windows using GCC and MinGW-w64 with the MSYS2 distribution. -How to setup MSYS2: +The MSYS2 installer can be downloaded from https://www.msys2.org. -1. Download and install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org. +Wireshark is available as an MSYS2 binary package[1]. It can be installed using pacman, +for example using the UCRT64 shell: -2. Open the MSYS shell. + $ pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-wireshark -3. Update with "pacman -Syu" as many times as necessary. You also need to - have base-devel installed: - - $ pacman -Syu base-devel. +If you wish to build wireshark from source code keep reading. -How to build the Wireshark MSYS2 package: +How to build Wireshark from source: -1. Open the shell for the selected environment. If in doubt choose the UCRT64 shell. +1. Open the shell for the selected 64-bit environment. -2. Build and install Wireshark using the MSYS2 PKGBUILD: +2. Build using CMake + Ninja: - $ cp -r $srcdir/packaging/msys2/mingw-w64-wireshark-git ./$builddir - $ cd $builddir - $ makepkg-mingw -si + $ cd $srcdir + $ mkdir build && cd build + $ cmake .. + $ ninja + $ ninja test # optional + $ ninja install # optional -The application should be launched using the same shell. +The application should be launched using the same shell. Alternatively you +can also use the PKGBUILD included in the Wireshark distribution. Currently the MSYS2 build has the following limitations compared to the build using Visual Studio (MSVC): * The Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) extcap cannot be compiled using MinGW-w64. -* Lua version is 5.1 (MSVC uses Lua 5.2) and does not have UTF-8 patches[1]. +* Lua version is 5.1 (MSVC uses Lua 5.2) and does not have UTF-8 patches[2]. * Enhanced Kerberos dissection with decryption is not available. @@ -41,4 +43,5 @@ the build using Visual Studio (MSVC): References: -[1]https://github.com/Lekensteyn/lua-unicode +[1]https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-wireshark +[2]https://github.com/Lekensteyn/lua-unicode |