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This document contains instructions to build and install Wireshark on Windows
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using GCC and MinGW-w64 with the MSYS2 distribution.
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How to setup MSYS2:
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1. Download and install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org.
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2. Open the MSYS shell.
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3. Update with "pacman -Syu" as many times as necessary. You also need to
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have base-devel installed:
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$ pacman -S base-devel.
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How to build the Wireshark MSYS2 package:
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1. Open the UCRT64 shell.
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2. (Optional) Build and install some missing dependencies in the MSYS2 repository.
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$ cd $srcdir/packaging/msys2/mingw-w64-bcg729
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$ makepkg-mingw -si
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$ cd $srcdir/packaging/msys2/mingw-w64-libsmi
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$ makepkg-mingw -si
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$ cd $srcdir/packaging/msys2/mingw-w64-sbc
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$ makepkg-mingw -si
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3. Build and install Wireshark
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$ cd $srcdir/packaging/msys2/mingw-w64-wireshark-git
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$ makepkg-mingw -si
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The application should be launched using the same shell (UCRT64 in this case).
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Currently the MSYS2 build has the following limitations compared to
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the build using Visual Studio (MSVC):
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* The Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) extcap cannot be compiled using MinGW-w64.
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* Lua version is 5.1 (MSVC uses Lua 5.2) and does not have UTF-8 patches[1].
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* Kerberos dependency for enhanced Kerberos dissection is not available
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in the repositories.
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* AirPcap is not available and there is no plan to support it.
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* There is currently no way to build a stand-alone distributable binary
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installer, similar to the Wireshark NSIS installer using MSVC.
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References:
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[1]https://github.com/Lekensteyn/lua-unicode
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