On 22/08/2011 21:24, Andreas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to build Wireshark from source. Since you obviously built this program
> it must work, but theres one tool (mt.exe) that never works for me. I hope
> you can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
>
> 1. installed CYGWIN and Python 2.7
> 2. installed Microsoft Visual Studio V9.0 (aka VS2008)
> 3. called "vcvarsall.bat x86"
> 4. cd to wireshark-1.6.1
> 5. nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup
> 6. nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean
> 7. nmake -f Makefile.nmake config.h tools image codecs wsutil epan
>
> While building epan, nmake builds zlib1.dll in zlib.tmp when running the line
> $(MAKE) /$(MAKEFLAGS) -f win32/Makefile.msc zlib1.dll LOC="-DASMV -DASMINF"
> OBJA="inffas32.obj match686.obj"
>
> This actually calls:
>
> xcopy C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125 zlib.tmp /D /I /E /Y
> cd zlib.tmp
> nmake.exe / -f win32/Makefile.msc zlib1.dll LOC="-DASMV -DASMINF"
> OBJA="inffas32.obj match686.obj"
> if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125 mkdir
> C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125
> if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125\lib mkdir
> C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125\lib
> if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125\include mkdir
> C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125\include
> mt.exe -nologo -manifest "zlib1.dll.manifest"
> -outputresource:zlib1.dll;2
>
> The last command always crashes. The tool mt.exe loads zlib1.dll to memory
> and doesn't find the correct run-time library.
>
> A) What's wrong with my approach?
> B) Isn't the make run for $(ZLIB_DLL): nonsense? It copies files from
> C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\zlib125 and after that it creates the same
> directory?
> C) What MSVCR90.dll run-time library should be compatible with zlib1.dll? I
> assume that there is a problem, that mt.exe finds. When I run this command
> from the command prompt, I get the message:
> Unabale to find a version of the runtime to run this application.
>
>
Is there any error message at all from the build after the call to mt.exe?
>From your command prompt after the build fails what is the output from "where
mt.exe"?
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Regards,
Graham Bloice