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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Source Build using Mac OSX?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:54:52 -0700
On Mar 23, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction on how to build wireshark
> successfully using Mountain Lion? So far I am failing spectacularly.
> Using MacPorts for the necessary libraries and dev-dependencies, and
> deactivating everything I can not compile (Airpcap amongst those)

Using Xcode's command-line tools, autoconf/automake/libtool downloaded in source code form from the GNU project's server and installed (because Mountain Lion doesn't supply them), and the top-level macosx-setup.sh script to set up the necessary libraries and developer, I can compile.