Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10076] New: fix build instructions for windows

Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 11:52:55 +0000
Bug ID 10076
Summary fix build instructions for windows
Classification Unclassified
Product Wireshark
Version Git
Hardware x86
OS Windows 7
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity Trivial
Priority Low
Component Documentation
Assignee [email protected]
Reporter [email protected]

Build Information:
Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
-v", or "tshark -v".
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http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html says:

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If your version of the compiler does not have SetEnv.Cmd you may need to use
vcvarsall.bat or vcvars32.bat which do much the same thing as SetEnv.cmd. For
example, on some 64-bit installations, one would build a 32-bit version by
invoking

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat

and one would build a 64-bit version using the command

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\Vcvarsall.bat" amd64

Consult your compiler’s documentation to learn which version applies to your
installation.
======= 8< ========

In the latest version of Visual Studio 2010EE (as suggested by the
instructions), vcvars32.bat doesn't exist anymore, it is now all vcvarsall.bat
and the expected argument is x86.



The same page says:

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2.2.2. Install Cygwin

Download the Cygwin installer and start it.

At the "Select Packages" page, you’ll need to select some additional packages
which are not installed by default. Navigate to the required Category/Package
row and, if the package has a "Skip" item in the "New" column, click on the
"Skip" item so it shows a version number for:

    Archive/unzip
    Base/dos2unix
    Devel/bison
    Devel/flex
    Devel/git (recommended - see discussion about using Git below)
    Interpreters/perl
    Utils/patch (optional)
    Web/wget 
======= 8< ========

base/dos2unix is in utils, while you need to add interpreters/m4 to the list to
get ascend.y converted by bison into ascend.c.



The same page has conflicting path names. Generally it talks about
c:\development\wireshark, but in the Build Wireshark section and in the Create
Wireshark Installer section it still refers to c:\wireshark:

 Run C:\wireshark\wireshark-gtk2\wireshark.exe and make sure it starts. s 
 Run >
C:\wireshark\packaging\nsis\wireshark-win32-wireshark-major-minor-version:[].x-myprotocol123.exe
to test your new installer.




Further as a general statement please add that if the Visual C++ installation
or the SDK or the Service Pack upgrades constantly fail, that


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