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5.4. GTK+ / GLib / GDK / Pango / ATK / GNU

gettext / GNU libiconv

The Glib library is used as a basic platform abstraction library, it's not related to graphical user inter-

face (GUI) things. For a detailed description about GLib, see Section 7.3, “The GLib library”.

The GTK and its dependent libraries are used to build Wireshark's GUI. For a detailed description of

the GTK libraries, see Section 10.2, “The GTK library”.

All other libraries are dependent on the two libraries mentioned above, you will typically not come

in touch with these while doing Wireshark development.

As the requirements for the GLib/GTK libraries have increased in the past, the required additional

libraries depend on the GLib/GTK versions you have. The 1.x versions only needed GLib/

GDK/GTK+, while the 2.x versions require all mentioned libs.

5.4.1. Unix

The GLib/GTK+ libraries are available for many unix-like platforms and cygwin.

If these libraries aren't already installed and also aren't available as a package for your platform, you

can get them at: http://www.gtk.org.

5.4.2. Win32 MSVC

You can get the latest version at: http://www.gimp.org/%7Etml/gimp/win32/downloads.html.

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