5 <section id="PreForeword">
6 <title>Foreword</title>
8 This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into
9 the wonderful world of Wireshark development.
12 Developers who are new to Wireshark often have a hard time getting
13 their development environment up and running. This is
14 especially true for Win32 developers, as a lot of the tools and methods
15 used when building Wireshark are much more common in the UNIX world than
19 The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment
20 needed to develop Wireshark.
23 The second part of this book will describe how to change the Wireshark
27 We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
31 <section id="PreAudience">
32 <title>Who should read this document?</title>
34 The intended audience of this book is anyone going into the development of
38 This book is not intended to explain the usage of Wireshark in general.
40 <ulink url="&WiresharkUsersGuidePage;">Wireshark User's Guide</ulink>
41 about Wireshark usage.
44 By reading this book, you will learn how to develop Wireshark. It will
45 hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appear for
46 new (and sometimes even advanced) developers of Wireshark.
51 <title>Acknowledgements</title>
53 The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their
54 assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
58 Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project.
63 Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and his effort in maintaining
64 the various contributions on the mailing lists.
70 The authors would also like to thank the following people for their
71 helpful feedback on this document:
74 <para>XXX - Please give feedback :-)
78 And of course a big thank you to the many, many contributors of the
79 Wireshark development community!
83 <section id="PreAbout">
84 <title>About this document</title>
86 This book was developed by
87 <ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail;">Ulf Lamping</ulink>.
90 It is written in DocBook/XML.
93 You will find some specially marked parts in this book:
95 <warning><title>This is a warning!</title>
97 You should pay attention to a warning, as otherwise data loss might occur.
100 <note><title>This is a note!</title>
102 A note will point you to common mistakes and things that might not be
106 <tip><title>This is a tip!</title>
108 Tips will be helpful for your everyday work developing Wireshark.
113 <section id="PreDownload">
114 <title>Where to get the latest copy of this document?</title>
116 The latest copy of this documentation can always be found at:
117 <ulink url="&WiresharkDevsGuidePage;">&WiresharkDevsGuidePage;</ulink>
118 in PDF (A4 and US letter), HTML (single and chunked) and CHM format.
122 <section id="PreFeedback">
123 <title>Providing feedback about this document</title>
125 Should you have any feedback about this document, please send it
126 to the authors through <ulink url="mailto:&WiresharkDevMailList;">&WiresharkDevMailList;</ulink>.