["Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Olivier Biot


| Hi list,
|
| I'm trying to compile Ethereal on WinXP with the recently released
| MSVC++ command-line toolkit.
|
| First of all you need to download and install this toolkit from this
| link:
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
|
| Then you need NMAKE. Fortunately NMAKE 1.5 can be downloaded from
| Microsoft if you search for "KB132084". Unpack the archive by
running
| it, and drop the 3 extracted files in the MSVC++ Toolkit "bin"
| directory.
|
| Now it's time to edit config.nmake.
|
| Now read README.win32 and try to run the 1st make (nmake -f
| Makefile.nmake setup). You'll note that you don't have "Win32.mak"
as
| it is not shipped with the Toolkit.
|
| Fortunately you can get around this issue by browsing to
| http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/
| where you select the "Core SDK" and only tick the "Build
Environment"
| (31MB) option. After a while, this SDK will be installed.
|
| >From the start menu, choose "Programs"
| -> "Microsoft Platform SDK February 2003"
| -> "Open build environment window"
| -> (choose your OS Win2K/WinXP/Win2003)
| A command prompt will open. Now run the vcvars32.bat from the MSVC++
| Toolkit so your build environment will work:
|
| And now you're stuck since NMAKE 1.5 doesn't like the '::' for
suffix
| rules in Makefiles. So I got rid of the "::" in the ".c.obj::"
target
| of all Makefile.nmake files. From the cygwin prompt, type:
| $ find . -name Makefile.nmake -exec grep -l "^[.].*::" {} ';'
|
| Now nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup works!
|
| Now you want to run "nmake -f Makefile.nmake" but it won't work as
| your PATH contains space characters. The simplest way of figuring
your
| path is by cd'ing to a directory with spaces in it and then type
| "command" and then "exit".
|
| Once you've done this, you're ready to compile... for a while as
| PCAP.H wants to include <sys/time.h> which means WIN32 has not been
| defined. So edit config.nmake and add "/DWIN32" to the compiler
flags.
|
| Now again try running "nmake -f Makefile.nmake". Again you will be
| able to compile for a while, after what it will fail again:
|
| <start>
| C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal\wiretap>nmake -f
| Makefile.nmake
|
| Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
| Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
|
|         link  /INCREMENTAL:NO
| /NOLOGO -entry:_DllMainCRTStartup@12 -dll kernel32.lib  ws2_32.lib
| mswsock.lib advapi32.lib  /DEBUG  /DEF:wtap.def /OUT:wiretap-0.1.dll
| /IMPLIB:wiretap-0.1.lib  airopeek9.obj  ascend-grammar.obj
| ascend-scanner.obj  ascend.obj  atm.obj  buffer.obj  cosine.obj
| csids.obj  dbs-etherwatch.obj  erf.obj  etherpeek.obj
file_access.obj
| file_wrappers.obj  hcidump.obj  i4btrace.obj  iptrace.obj
| lanalyzer.obj  libpcap.obj  netmon.obj  nettl.obj
| network_instruments.obj  netxray.obj  ngsniffer.obj  radcom.obj
| pppdump.obj  snoop.obj  toshiba.obj  eyesdn.obj  visual.obj  vms.obj
| wtap.obj  5views.obj
|
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\gl
| ib-2.0.lib
|
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\gm
| odule-2.0.lib
|
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\go
| bject-2.0.lib
|
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\zlib121-dll
| \lib\zdll.lib
|
| LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'MSVCRT.lib'
| NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return
code
| '0x450'
| Stop.
| <end>
|
| Here I am definitely stuck :(
|
| Has this to do with the fact that the MSVCRT.DLL and the likes are
not
| included in the MSVC++ Toolkit? As I am not familiar at all with the
| MSVC compiler suite, I'd like to know what I have to do in order to
| continue compilation. Maybe some Makefile.nmake have to be
redefined?
|
| I have attached all changes I made to the normal cvs snapshot.

Looks like reading win32.mak yields parts of the solution:
#
======================================================================
===
# Build Rules Quick Start
#
# To build one of the following types of executables, use the
specified
# compiler and linker command-line options.
#
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#   To build:         |  Compiler Options      | Linker options (pick
one
#                     |                        | line. con = console,
#                     |                        | gui = GUI, ole = GUI
OLE)
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#  Single threaded    | cdebug cflags cvars    | ldebug guilflags
guilibs
#  app with static    |                        | ldebug conlflags
conlibs
#  CRT                |                        | ldebug guilflags
olelibs
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#  Multithreaded app  | cdebug cflags cvarsmt  | ldebug guilflags
guilibsmt
#  with static CRT    |                        | ldebug conlflags
conlibsmt
#                     |                        | ldebug guilflags
olelibsmt
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#  Single or multi-   | cdebug cflags cvarsdll | ldebug guilflags
guilibsdll
#  threaded app with  |                        | ldebug conlflags
conlibsdll
#  DLL version of CRT |                        | ldebug guilflags
olelibsdll
#  (MSVCRT.DLL)       |                        |
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#  DLL with static    | cdebug cflags cvarsmt  | ldebug dlllflags
guilibsmt
#  CRT*               |                        | ldebug dlllflags
conlibsmt
#                     |                        | ldebug dlllflags
olelibsmt
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#  DLL with DLL       | cdebug cflags cvarsdll | ldebug dlllflags
guilibsdll
#  version of CRT     |                        | ldebug dlllflags
conlibsdll
#  (MSVCRT.DLL)       |                        | ldebug dlllflags
olelibsdll
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
#
#  * Always make DLLs multithreaded because a DLL has no way to know
whether
#    the calling application has multiple threads, and has no way to
prevent
#    multithreaded apps from loading it.
#

For wiretap this means:
* replace cvarsdll with cvarsmt
* replace conlibsdll with conlibsmt

But now I get another problem: the "lib" command is not found in the
MSVC++ Toolkit. Is it possible to replace "lib" with some $(link)
command as used in wiretap/Makefile.nmake?

Regards,

Olivier