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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building Wireshark on Windows

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:42:03 +0800
On 11/14/12 11:39 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Do you have the Cygwin "file" package installed on your build system? If
> so, what does "file wireshark-gtk2/wireshark.exe" return? Also, are you
> trying to build a 64-bit executable using Visual C++ 2010EE? If so, that
> might require extra effort:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865069/how-to-compile-a-64-bit-application-using-visual-c-2010-express

I forgot to add that you might also try opening wireshark.exe in
Dependency Walker on the XP and Vista machines to try to figure out why
it won't run.

http://www.dependencywalker.com/