Comments on: How to build a Wireshark plug-in

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:47:08 +0000

I would not suggest you to mess with this stuff on a weekend: there are plenty of things that might be a bit more interesting :). But if you find some time for this, well, I will appreciate that deeply.

Michael.

By: Simeon

Simeon — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:45:26 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’ve not build a Wireshark plugin for a few years, so I’m not sure if things have progressed from were they were.

It might make for an interesting weekend project to start from scratch and update this guide…

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:28:59 +0000

Hi Simeon,

Will possibly need your experience and help here.
I’m a DSP programmer over years. I’ve bumped into a problem of writing some wireshark dissector plugin. My current environment for that is x86 Windows, and it is far from my “native” coding environment. I have VS2008 C++ express (may download 2010 express if required).
Now, I’ve reviewed the material on the Net dealing with building wireshark dissectors and found it a bit complicated. My question is: is there any simple way to compile a plugin dll in the VS, without all this cygwin stuff and wireshark source compiling? If yes, could you please write briefly how to. If not, what is the simplest way of building the plugin?

Thanks,
Michael

By: Simeon

Simeon — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:12:50 +0000

Hello Manoj,

If you do a window search for “nmake” in your “Program Files” directory you should find atleast one, if not many copies. Go one level higher up, and you should see a batch file “vcvarsall.bat” this is what you want run to setup your paths for that Visual Studio install.

Simeon

By: Manoj

Manoj — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:08:59 +0000

Hi,

I am using VS2008 C++ express to build the code
I had installed Cygwin on my machine
But when i run this command in CMD ” nmake –f Makefile.nmake setup” it is throwing error saying unrecognized command “nmake” ?

Any guess ??
do i need to install anything else.

Manoj.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:56:59 +0000

Hi Simeon,
Thank you for your council
I have advanced a little in my project, I wish you aware if I would have a problem if it bothers you not.

By: Simeon

Simeon — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:25:38 +0000

Hello Sam,

Well if you have Wireshark building, start by capturing some packets, and decode them as you see them. That’s how I did it.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:51:58 +0000

Hi!
I am a student in France, I am in internship for 4mois;
my 1st mission is to develop a plugin that decodes a Protocol used in the company.
I have installed all the development environment of wireshark
But I do not know how to begin. !!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your help