For what it's worth? I just finished building Wireshark from 99.6 after
performing the following (per Developers Guide):
1. MSVC v6 was installed with default setup. Installed a couple years
ago.
Performed today!!!
2. Install CYGWIN (just the tools specified in Dev Guide.)
3. Unzip 99.6 tarball to wireshark-0.99.6 directory (path contained in
archive)
- modified config.nmake so that wireshark_libs = o:\, instead of
c:\
4. Create DOS window with clean environment (created via batch file),
minimizes environment issues.
5. performed dist_clean (nmake -f Makefile.nmake dist_clean)
6. performed setup (nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup)
7. perform make (nmake -f Makefile.nmake) SUCCESS!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Graham Bloice
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:46 AM
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 0.99.6 build problems on Windows
>
> Michael Lum wrote:
> > I updated my cygwin installation but that didn't help.
> >
> > I followed the link for the MS Platform SDK but it states VC 6.0 is
> > not
> > supported:
> >
> > Development Tools. To build the C/C++ samples, you must
> have a C/C++
> > compiler. If you are using Microsoft Visual C/C++(r), run
> it at least
> > once before installing the SDK. This will ensure that the
> environment
> > variables are correctly configured. To build the Visual
> Basic samples,
> > you must have Microsoft Visual Basic(r). This SDK does not support
> > working with Microsoft Visual C/C++(r), 6.0 as support for
> VC 6.0 has
> > ended. The last SDK that will work with VC 6.0 is the February 2003
> > Edition, you can order a CD on the fulfillment site. Side by side
> > installations are not supported.
> >
> > So unfortunately I'm still stuck.
> > I have tried, clean, distclean, setup, all, again but to no avail.
> >
> >
> OK, so we really need some more clues about the compilation
> errors. You can try getting the output from the preprocessor
> to see if that gives any more clues. Be aware the output is
> massive, consisting mostly of blank lines, but might help you out.
>
> 1. cd into the epan dir and compile filesystem.c on its own
> with "nmake makefile.nmake filesystem.obj"
> 2. Copy the compiler invocation emitted by nmake and paste
> it back into your command prompt, but tack a "-P" on the end
> 3. This should produce a filesystem.i for your perusal. Good luck.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Graham Bloice
>
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