Andrew Hood wrote:
Hi Ulf,
Mind if we take this offline? We can summarise or come up with some
suitable patch if I get it working. I don't normally build stuff on
Windows other than with cygwin. I'm much more comfortable on Linux and
Solaris, and can put up with AIX and HP-UX.
As I'm only compiling with MSVC6, it might be better to have others give
us some tips or learn from it, I've CCed this to the dev list.
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Andrew Hood wrote:
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Try to add /NODEFAULTLIB:LIBC (or LIBC.lib?) to your linker settings
(LOCAL_LDFLAGS in config.nmake), or do you use the IDE?
I stick to the command line.
/NODEFAULTLIB:LIBC almost works. editcap.exe, mergecap.exe and
text2pcap.exe do not link
Linking editcap.exe
link @C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nm129.tmp
editcap.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__strtol
referenced in function _main
editcap.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__exit
referenced in function _main
editcap.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__fprintf
referenced in function _main
getopt.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__fprintf
editcap.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp___iob
getopt.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp___iob
etc ...
I added msvcrt.lib (probably not the right thing to do) to each of
those links and they worked.
Then the call to tethereal in doc/Makefile/nmake for building the doco
fails "can't find libglib-2.0.0.dll".
This might be solved by a patch from Lars Roland in the config.nmake I
just checked in some minutes ago :-)
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How do you test? On *nix I just ./ethereal and off it goes.
On XP I get a never ending string of "can't find dll" messages unless
I either:
- add every directory under \ethereal-win32-libs and the build
directory containg a dll to the path, or
- copy all of the dlls (ethereal, and dissectors, and glib, and gtk+,
and so on) into one directory.
and copy intl.dll from my installed ethereal to somewhere it can be
found.
Some of the DLLs are in my path, other I simply copy into the exe dir.
This isn't a situation I'm satisfied with,
but didn't found a good solution for this.
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tethereal runs.
ethereal keep crashing at various asserts in fdopen.c in msvcr70.dll
trying to start a capture.
It won't open existing captures either: "The file xxxx could not be
opened for some unknown reason"
You might try using /NODEFAULTLIB:MSVCRT instead of /NODEFAULTLIB:LIBC.
But this is only guessing, I have no real idea how to solve this.
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Is there any particular reason for not having an "install" target?
Well, there is the NSIS installer, which builds a setup.exe for the
ethereal. This is the main installation procedure for Ethereal win32
binaries.
But there is no special reason not having an "install" target.
Regards, ULFL