Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Newbie

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Peter,

Welcome to the club :)

You’ve made the first important step, building Wireshark itself.

Now you can start by going through the menu’s and see what’s happening there, and relate that to the source code.

Then you may find bits you would like to change/improve. Another source of inspiration can be the bug database. Even if you cannot solve the problem straight away, it’s a good way to study the inner workings of the program.

Enjoy,

Jaap

On 9 Oct 2017, at 17:31, peters4@xxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

 

i am Peter from Munich (München) / Germany.

 

I am a native german speaker, but i try to write english at my best.

 

I would like to work on developing Wireshark from now on.

 

This is my first open source project.

 

I have to learn the function/using of Wireshark too.

 

I have some experience in programming in C/C++ and also (less) QT on windows, LINUX and Solaris.

I would like to use Windows (8.1) on a 64-bit machine.

 

What is the specific problem with QTCreator on windows?

 

I habe today made the first build on my machine. Wireshark built on my machine runs.

 

Can somebody give me a hint, what i now can do, e.g. what change on sources and/or learning using Wireshark?

 

 

Greetins, Peter