[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely.
Bullding under cygwin is a pain. I always have to massage the
Makefiles generated by the autotools by hand toi get it to link
properly.
I also always have to use a lot of configure flags such as
--without-pcap --without-plugins --disable-shared ...


What would be GREAT would be if someone kept the wiki
howto-build-for-cygwin up to date.

Even better if someone would implement a cygwin buildbot so that we
can see when we break it.


On 7/7/05, Cook, Timothy <tcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is where YOU do have something to contribute!!!  You've just spent very
> frustrating time to get your build environment functional.  While it's still
> fresh, submit document changes to make the process BETTER for the next
> 'first timer'.  Putting the task off only dooms it to never being done.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [SMTP:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erik Sternerson
> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:20 PM
> > To: Ethereal development
> > Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] What are all the softwares is needed?
> > 
> > Cook, Timothy wrote:
> > >Did you check the WIKI link supplied in the original message?
> >
> >http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development_2fEtherealDevelopersGuide?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=developer-guide-us.pdf
> > >Section 2 is the tools section & 2.3 lists the mandatory & optional
> tools.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's a nice looking list.
> > 
> > Questions though. And this still refers to being able to run 'nmake -f
> makefile.nmake setup',
> > But setup contains these requirements for a reason, right?
> > 
> > The file win32-setup.sh in the /tools/ directory uses 'which'. 
> > Won't work without. Isn't mentioned with the mandatory tools.
> > 
> > Config.nmake specifies python as 'env python'. Env.exe is a part of
> coreutils. 
> > Won't work without (at least not 'out of the box'). Isn't mentioned with
> the mandatory tools.
> > 
> > 
> > Quote 1: (p.58)
> > 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.
> > 
> > Quote 2: (p.58)
> > Then enter at the command line:
> > > nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup
> > This will first check for all the various tools needed to build Ethereal,
> as described already in Section
> > 2.19, "Win32: Verify installed tools".
> > 
> > Wait.. what's this? 2.19... Guess I should have read that instead. Nice
> list of all tools it'll use.
> > Doesn't mention package name (tricky for 'env') and doesn't mention
> 'which', but it's better than the one before!
> > Also 'find' seems to be missing? It is in makefile.nmake's
> 'REQUIRED_TOOLS'
> > 
> > Sorry about being a jerk, but it took me quite a while to figure out which
> cygwin packages were needed :(
> > 
> > I'm gonna go and stay silent now, until I have something constructive to
> contribute :)
> > 
> > Erik
> > ________________________________________
> > From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cook, Timothy
> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:44 AM
> > To: Ethereal development
> > Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] What are all the softwares is needed?
> > 
> > Did you check the WIKI link supplied in the original message?
> >
> http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development_2fEtherealDevelopersGuide?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=developer-guide-us.pdf
> > Section 2 is the tools section & 2.3 lists the mandatory & optional
> tools.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [SMTP:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erik Sternerson
> > Sent:   Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:16 AM
> > To:     Ethereal development
> > Subject:        RE: [Ethereal-dev] What are all the softwares is needed?
> > Is there any list in any documents on which cygwin binaries you need to
> > build? It took me about half an hour to figure out that when nmake said
> > something like "bash not found" it actually meant that I had missed to
> > install 'which'. Not very apparent, ey?
> > So I made my own list about which cygwin packages are needed to build
> > the ethereal source (actually those that are needed to get "nmake -f
> > makefile.nmake setup" to run.
> > If these are in any documentation somewhere, please feel free point me
> > in the right direction and call me silly.
> > Anyhow, here's the list.
> >         Archive>Unzip
> >         Base>bash
> >         Base>coreutils  
> >         Base>findutils
> >         Base>grep
> >         Base>sed
> >         Base>which
> >         Devel>bison> 
> >         Devel>flex
> >         Interpreters>Perl
> >         Interpreters>Python
> >         Web>wget
> > Erik
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:30 AM
> > To: Ethereal development
> > Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What are all the softwares is needed?
> > Jaap Keuter wrote:
> > > READ the developer manaul found on the Ethereal website, the Wiki
> > In particular, see
> >         http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development
> > > and the README files in the /doc directory of the source tree.
> > > 
> > > Can this be our standard reply from now on?
> > Perhaps this belongs in the FAQ, in a new section on "Developing code 
> > for Ethereal".
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