Hello Armen,
> I wanted to get some tips on the best quick and dirty dev environment to setup to get this to a tested patch stage.
See the following URL from the Developer Guide
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
> - Development Environment
> - Compiler (no idea gcc?)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
> - SVN client (thinking tortoiseSVN)
Yes.
> - Diff tool (WinMerge looks appropriate as it has patch/diff file creation available)
Yes. (and integrates into TortoiseSVN
Good luck!
Steve
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