Wireshark Capture support

Savory Michael msavory1 at nzbox.com
Fri Sep 17 17:08:44 PDT 2010


Hi Jeff

Maybe time for a wireshark-dev port?
Any docs on the really cool plugins available?

Mike

On Sep 17, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Jeff Singleton wrote:

> Oh ... if you wish to try building Wireshark from SVN, the v1.5.0 tree is very stable and a lot of really cool plugins.  Not to mention it comes with a 'make osx-app' command that will build the .app bundle for you...there is also 'make osx-package' that makes the .pkg bundle. 
> 
> Also, doing it this way provides a ChmodBPF script to automatically set the permissions on the /dev/bpf* for you.
> 
> Here is the configure string I used to build with ... I added --enable-airpcap because it adds the functionality for Wireless sniffing. I forced my prefix to /opt/wireshark for the binaries, etc. in case I needed to run something from the command line.
> 
> CC=/opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.4 CXX=/opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.4 CPP=/opt/local/bin/cpp-mp-4.4 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/opt/wireshark --with-python=/opt/local --enable-airpcap --disable-gtktest --disable-glibtest --enable-threads --disable-warnings-as-errors
> 
> Enjoy!
> 



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