Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Microsoft Visual C Version 6support isa bitoutdated ...

From: Alfred Alinazar <aalinazar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:33:12 +0700
Ulf Lamping wrote:
I have MSVC 8.0 build 50727. I detest trying to use the M$ compiler
suite, but sometimes the alternatives are worse.

Do you use the Express Edition or the Studio?
Ulf,

I'm using MSVC 2005 Express edition.
I got the error message below after running "nmake -f Makefile.nmake all" at the command prompt (cmd.exe)
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Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

       bison  -d -p ascend ascend-grammar.y -o ascend-grammar.c
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bison.EXE: m4: Invalid argument
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bison.EXE"' : return
code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\n
make.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
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Looks like that the argument was invalid by Bison.

My version of Bison:
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bison (GNU Bison) 2.1
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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would you like to help ?

regards,

-Alfred-