champhastings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am getting compile errors when trying to compile the 99.6 source.
Initially says the file can't be found.
You're building on Windows, right?
If so, there's not supposed to be a unistd.h file (except in Cygwin, but
I don't know whether we support building Wireshark in Cygwin - it
expects UN*X or Windows, not something running on Windows trying its
best to look like UN*X). The "uni" in "unistd.h" comes from "UNIX".
If you're compiling on Windows, you're presumably doing development
(users not doing development should just download an installer .exe and
run that). As such, see the Developer's Guide:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/
In particular, see
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html#id4733893
"2.2.9. Distclean Sources
The released Wireshark sources contain files that are prepared for a
UNIX build (e.g. config.h).
You must distclean your sources before building the first time!
If you've closed cmd.exe in the meantime, prepare cmd.exe again
nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean to cleanup the Wireshark sources"
Some of the files prepared for a UN*X build in the source tarball are
the output of Flex (they're included so that you don't have to have Flex
to build on UN*X - one way we distribute Wireshark for UN*X is in a
source tarball, for platforms where we don't have installable binaries,
so the user can at least build the binaries for their platform). Flex,
on UN*X, generates code to build on UN*X, and that code includes
"unistd.h". You will have to rebuild that file with Flex on Windows to
get a version that will compile on Windows.
If you're not building on Windows, you're presumably building on some
amazingly ancient UN*X (which we don't support), or you're building on a
UN*X system that doesn't have all the headers installed.