Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Developer cmd.exe shortcut

From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:35:54 +0100
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Graeme Lunt wrote:
>> Ulf,
>>
>> Something you may want to add to:
>>
>> http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html#ChSetupPre
>> pareCommandCom
>>
>> --
>>
>> You can create a shortcut to prepare the cmd.exe environment for building
>> wireshark.
>>
>> Right click on the desktop and choose "New/Shortcut"
>>
>> In the resulting wizard, enter the following for the "location of the item":
>>
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /S /K ""C:\Program
>> Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\SetEnv.Cmd" &&
>> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat""
>>
>> Press "Next >".
>>
>> Choose an appropriate Name for the shortcute.g. "WSDevShell".
>>
>> Select "Finish".
>>
>> Then right click on the new shortcut and choose "Properties".
>> Change the "Start in" field to "C:\Wireshark" and press "OK".
>>
>>   
> Well, instead of adding this to the quick setup, I think about adding 
> something like this as a batch file to the subversion sources.
> 
> In the meantime, using the MSVC2005(EE) and the SDK seems to become 
> common, so adding such a batch file might make sense now. Obviously, 
> you'll have to edit both solutions if the path settings are different 
> than the defaults. And I guess it's easier to "install", than the 
> shortcut thing. You can then easily add a shortcut to this batch file on 
> the desktop or where you like ...
> 
> It's called quick setup guide, so making it larger should be justified ;-)
> 
> Or are there real advantages of the shortcut solution that I just don't see?
> 

Does VS2005 EE not install a "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt" entry
in the "Visual Studio Tools" menu of VS?

VS 2005 Professional certainly does.  The advantage of this is the paths
will be correct.  All you need to do is copy it and change the "Start
in" directory.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice