krishna hegde wrote:
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>I am using the Visual studio 2010 for the building Wire shark Source . I
>understand that Visual studio already has nmake utitiy.
>
>I am getting the error as
>
>Error 1 error U1065: invalid option '-' C:\Wireshark\NMAKE wireshark Error
>2 error MSB3073: The command "nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean" exited
>with code 2. C:\Program
>Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets 33 6 wire shark
>
>I tried using the nmake -f Makefile.nmake verify_tools
>
>Still I am getting the same error Error 1 error U1065: invalid option '-'
This has actually come up before. The problem then was that the hyphen character had actually been cut-and-pasted from another document which didn't actually use the ASCII hyphen character (ASCII code 0x2d). Perhaps that's the problem here as well.
Ed