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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Issue with building wireshark from source

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:31:04 -0400
Stephen Fisher wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:06:48PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:

In this case "the latest version of GTK+" is not really a good thing. GTK3 is special in that they ripped out backwards compatability for a lot of stuff, which means that applications (such as Wireshark) frequently need to be *ported* to GTK3.

You can try the (still experimental) support for GTK3 in Wireshark by passing "--with-gtk3" to the configure script.

... But only if you're building from the current SVN, which, based on the minimum GTK version 'configure' is requiring:

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no

I'm guessing you're not.  (Current SVN requires 2.12 or later.)