[Brian Oleksa <oleksab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes....after I do my perl commands in the cygwin window..I just leave it 
open.
I leave the cygwin window open when I build the older source and it works.

Anyway.....I did close it and it still crashed.

I am going to continue to plug away at this.

Thanks,
Brian





Graham Bloice wrote:
> Brian Oleksa wrote:
>   
> > Graham
> >
> > I completely rebooted my machine (just to make sure I was not using the 
> > same command prompt)...tried again (it chugged along for a while)...
> > then it broke. Remember...I am not even trying the 64 bit stuff yet.
> >
> > All I am trying to do is check out the new source and build the 32 bit 
> > version before I jump into the 64 bit stuff again.
> >
> > The reason I had updat source is because what Gerald stated.....in my 
> > old source tree in the config.namke file it specified that "only" 32 bit 
> > was available.
> >
> > So this is where I am at.....I will continue to try and track down why 
> > this is not working before I completely break a perfect environment that 
> > works with old sources.
> >
> > Also....this is what I did for the old sources......it defiantly doesn't 
> > work if I do not do this....but are these steps in right order...???
> >
> > First prepare command prompt:
> > C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin>vcvars32.bat
> >
> > Run the perl programs in a Cygwin terminal:
> > cd C:
> > cd wireshark-<version>
> >
> > $ perl make-version.pl
> > $ perl perlnoutf.pl make-authors-short.pl < AUTHORS > AUTHORS-SHORT
> > $ perl perlnoutf.pl make-authors-format.pl < AUTHORS-SHORT > 
> > AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
> >
> > (go to "prepaired"cmd window)
> >
> > cd to wireshark
> > then do
> > nmake -f Makefile.nmake all
> >
> > Do you have to do this when you build....????
> >
> > Anyway.....here is the error that I am getting:
> >
> >  perl perlnoutf.pl make-authors-short.pl < ../AUTHORS > AUTHORS-SHORT
> >   24275 [main] perl 3980 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 
> > 0xBD2000
> > ..0xBD2370, done 0, windows pid 3980, Win32 error 487
> >
> > Any ideas why make-authors-short.pl appears to be breaking....???
> >
> > In the meantime...if you think of anything else...please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> >   
> >     
> Nope, I don't need to do the extra perl step, it works in the build
> fine.  The error sounds like an older cygwin error due to clashes
> between cygwin.dll versions.  Do you have a cygwin window open when
> running the build?
>
>