How to see console messages in wireshark linux ?

Question

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Tips

Above link shows how can we use printf to debug in console. But i am not able to see console in linux. Please help.

Answer 1

Open a console, launch Wireshark from it, see the console output. Try this on your fresh build:

WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1 WIRESHARK_DEBUG_MIBS=6 ./wireshark

or with gdb:

WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1 WIRESHARK_DEBUG_MIBS=6 libtool --mode=execute gdb wireshark
(gdb) run

These env vars only tweak Wireshark into knowing it runs from the build directory and spew a lot of MIB parsing output. No need for them other than to showcase the console output.