Manjunath P wrote:
Hi all,
I hv a question.
Due to some dowloading problems, I am not able to build
wireshark on Windows. So, I hv decided to build WS source in Linux itself.
I assume you need to change Wireshark or add a new dissector or tap to
Wireshark, as you don't need to build the standard version in order to
run Wireshark on Windows (there's a pre-built binary).
These are my queries
1) If I build WS, and write my own dissector (as a plugin or build
with source ) in Linux, can the .exe file so genrated be
executable in Windows
I know of nothing similar to Wine that would help you by allowing Linux,
or other UN*X, binaries to run on Windows. (No, the Interix subsystem
doesn't do that, as far as I know.)
I.e., an executable image for a UN*X such as Linux is not executable on
Windows (and doesn't have a name ending with ".exe" - UN*X executables
tend not to have any extension).
OR is there any necessity for me to crs-compile??
You would have to cross-compile; I don't know what tools there are for
building Windows executables on Linux - or whether, if any exist, they
can be used to build Wireshark.