User guide

Preface
1. Foreword
This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into the wonderful world of Wire-
shark development.
Developers who are new to Wireshark often have a hard time getting their development environ-
ment up and running. This is especially true for Win32 developers, as a lot of the tools and methods
used when building Wireshark are much more common in the UNIX world than on Win32.
The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment needed to develop Wireshark.
The second part of this book will describe how to change the Wireshark source code.
We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
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