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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark binary for MacOSX: Questions.

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:23:03 -0800
On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:04 PM, arnaldo nazario wrote:

> Does the recent wireshark binary build (.dmg) depend on MacOSX system libraries 
> (dynamically linked libpcap etc.),

Yes:

$ otool -L /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wireshark-bin
/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wireshark-bin:
	/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 34.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 476.19.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 32.0.0)

		...

	/usr/lib/libpcap.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

		...

	/usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.20.0)

		...

	/usr/X11/lib/libXrender.1.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXau.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXdmcp.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libpixman-1.0.dylib (compatibility version 13.0.0, current version 13.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.1.4)

		...

	/usr/lib/libresolv.9.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 25.0.2)

		...

	/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)

		...

	/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
	/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

This is as it is intended to be.