Wireshark currently runs on most UNIX platforms and various Windows platforms. It requires Qt, GLib, libpcap and some other libraries in order to run.
As Wireshark is developed in a platform independent way and uses libraries (such as the Qt GUI library) which are available for many different platforms, it’s thus available on a wide variety of platforms.
If a binary package is not available for your platform, you should download the source and try to build it. Please report your experiences to wireshark-dev[AT]wireshark.org.
Binary packages are available for the following platforms along with many others:
Thanks to the Win32 API, development on all Windows platforms will be done in a very similar way. All Windows platforms referred to as Win32, Win or Windows may be used with the same meaning. Older Windows versions are no longer supported by Wireshark. As Windows CE differs a lot compared to the other Windows platforms mentioned, Wireshark will not run on Windows CE and there are no plans to support it.
Also the 64 bit Windows version are now supported by Wireshark. Although not all libraries are made 64 bit ready yet, basic operations are all available.
Support for XP / Server 2003 is best efforts for Wireshark 2.0 and later, it may fail to run at any time due to 3rd party library compatibility.