Out of Tree Dissector Build Problems on Windows

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I have successfully downloaded the source and compiled Wireshark from sources. The built executable runs. I followed the instructions here: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_h...

I am now trying to compile the "out of tree" dissector example here: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshar...

As recommended by the instructions, my wireshark source code is in c:\development\wireshark After compiling Wireshark, I now have a C:\Development\wsbuild64 directory too. I have copied the plugin.example code out of the wireshark tree, so I also have a C:\Development\plugins.example directory. I have created a build directory beneath the plugin.example directory, so I also have a C:\Development\plugins.example\build. I believe this is what https://github.com/wireshark/wireshar... is suggesting, though it is not entirely clear to me. I then execute

C:\Development\plugins.example\build>cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="C:\Development\wsbuild64" ..

The first hurdle I had to get past (alluded to in C:\Development\wsbuild64\WiresharkConfig.cmake was to create an empty folder so that cmake doesn't error out: I created C:\Development\include\wireshark - I hope this is right.

From WiresharkConfig.cmake...

set_and_check(Wireshark_INCLUDE_DIR        "${PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR}/include/wireshark")
#
# set_and_check() cannot be used with directories that may or may not exist.
# If no plugins or extcaps are built the respective directories will not exist in the target
# system and set_and_check() and therefore find_package() will fail with a FATAL_ERROR,
# which is not helpful because the variable is correct, it's just that the empty directories
# were not created (also correctly, empty directories are just noise).
#

However, after getting this far, I appear to have one or possibly two further errors that I am unable to fix...

C:\Development\plugins.example\build>cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="C:\Development\wsbuild64" ..
-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 10.0.22631.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.40.33813.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
CMake Error at C:/Development/wsbuild64/WiresharkConfig.cmake:50 (include):
  include could not find requested file:

    C:/Development/wsbuild64/WiresharkTargets.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:15 (find_package)


-- Looking for sys/types.h
-- Looking for sys/types.h - found
-- Looking for stdint.h
-- Looking for stdint.h - found
-- Looking for stddef.h
-- Looking for stddef.h - found
-- Check size of ssize_t
-- Check size of ssize_t - failed
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

C:\Development\plugins.example\build>

The first...

include could not find requested file:
C:/Development/wsbuild64/WiresharkTargets.cmake

... I am not sure whether this is a fatal error or really a warning, as the script continues and another error is given...

-- Check size of ssize_t
-- Check size of ssize_t - failed
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

This is where the script stops.

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