You can download/install all required libraries by using the setup target of the Makefile.nmake from the source package.

	Tip!
	It's a really good idea to use the Win32 automated library download to install the required libraries as it makes this download very easy.

	Note!
	Before you start the download, you must have installed both the required tools (see Chapter 4, Tool Reference ) and also the Wireshark sources (see Section 3.3, “Obtain the Wireshark sources”).

By default the libraries will be downloaded and installed into C:\wireshark-win32-libs. You can change this to any other location by editing the file config.nmake and changing the line containing the WIRESHARK_LIBS setting to your favourite place (use an absolute path here).

Then enter at the command line:

> nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup

This will first check for all the various tools needed to build Wireshark, as described already in Section 2.2.7, “Verify installed tools”.

Then it will download the zipped libraries (together around 30MB!) from the server location at: https://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark-win32-libs/trunk/packages/ into the directory specified by WIRESHARK_LIBS and install (unzip) all required library files there.

If you have problems downloading the library files, you might be connected to the internet through a proxy/firewall. In this case see the wget proxy comment in Section 4.15, “Win32: GNU wget (optional)”.

As new versions of the libraries become available, maybe with bugfixes or some new functionality, your libraries get outdated.

You could simply remove everything in the WIRESHARK_LIBS dir and call the setup target again, but that would require a download of every file again, which isn't necessary.

The following will bring your libraries up to date: