Brian Oleksa wrote:
> Wiresharkers...
>
> Has anybody had any success building a 64 bit version of wireshark on a
> 32 bit machine using the Visual Studio 2008 Enterprise Edition cross
> compilers..??
>
> I am able to build my wireshark dissector on my 32 bit machine with no
> problem using "vcvars32.bat".
>
> But now I am running into some 64 bit machines when I am out in the
> field (which my 32 bit doesn't work with)....so I would like to try and
> build me a 64 bit version of my plugin.
>
> Does anybody know if this can even be done..? If I had a 64 bit OS..I
> would just rebuild on it...but I do not have a 64 bit OS available so
> this is why I am trying to use the cross compilers.
>
> I have tried preparing the command prompt with the following (but it did
> not work): "vcvarsall.bat"
>
> I tried following this "http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64";
> but had no luck.
You should be able to cross-compile by doing the following:
set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64
The wiki page incorrectly said to use PLATFORM instead of
WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM. It's been fixed.