How to “Compile the dissector to a DLL or shared library”?

Question

I have successfully built Wireshark from source code using the instructions in section 2.2 of the developers guide(win64 setup). I am now trying to build my dissector using the instructions in section 9.2. At the end of Section 9.2.1 it says, "Compile the dissector to a DLL or shared library ...". Can someone tell me how to do this?

I found some old examples online, but they are not working. Do I use the "msbuild" command, as in section 2.2.12?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yep, just rebuild the whole solution again and it will all work, assuming you've made the correct changes. If you've created a plugin dissector you can just rebuild your plugin by substituting the path to the plugin project file on the msbuild command line, e.g.

msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo plugins\myplugin\myplugin.vcxproj

You must have previously built Wireshark in the build directory though before compiling the plugin on it's own in this manner. You'll find in practice there's only a little time difference between the "full" build and just building the plugin.