Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building with CMake on Win10 and VS2013 (win64)

From: João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:39:22 +0100


On 30-03-2016 14:25, Jo�o Valverde wrote:


On 30-03-2016 14:20, Jo�o Valverde wrote:


On 30-03-2016 08:48, Graham Bloice wrote:


On 30 March 2016 at 03:10, Jo�o Valverde
<joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



    On 29-03-2016 21:46, Roland Knall wrote:

        Sorry, late over here. You could try with cmake 3.5rc2. But
        beside that,
        I did not get WS compile correctly with VS2013 for some time
        now, need
        to use VS2015 myself.



    Just another data point, I tried building on Windows 10 x64 with
    VS2015 and the latest of everything I could find (cmake, etc), just
    following along the dev guide, it worked really well, no problems at
    all.


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I'm a little surprised that VS2015 worked straight away, have you built
an installer and tested that?  I thought there might be issues with the
split C runtime library in VS2015.

I still build with VS2013 on Win 7 (in a VirtualBox VM).  I'll likely be
switching to a Win 10 build VM soon.

I hadn't tried building the NSIS installer, but now that I looked into
it, I'm stumped because I don't have any nsis*.vcxproj files in my build
dir.

Nevermind, it dawned on me that I needed to re-run cmake to detect the
fresh NSIS installation. :)


No problems building the installer with NSIS 3.0b3.

My minor criticism/suggestion for the whole process is that it would be better to have a separate build step for the documentation instead of having to pass -DENABLE_CHM_GUIDES=on to cmake and doing everything in a single run (as I understood it).

Also this bit in the dev guide seems a bit redundant (and the "Note" is not using asciidoc markup?):

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Note: If you do not yet have a copy of vcredist_x86.exe or vcredist_x64.exe in ./wireshark-winXX-libs (where XX is 32 or 64) you will need to download the appropriate file and place it in ./wireshark-winXX-libs before starting this step.

If building an x86 version using a Visual Studio "Express" edition or an x64 version with any edition, then you must have the appropriate vcredist file for your compiler in the support libraries directory (vcredist_x86.exe in wireshark-32-libs or vcredist_x64.exe in wireshark-win64-libs).