Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building on Windows

From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:55:12 +0000


On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 17:36, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:30 AM Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Normally (as in the half dozen or so systems I have checked on) you would have:
>
> 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCRedistVersion.default.txt
> 07/10/2019  10:18               401 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props
> 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt
> 07/10/2019  10:18               401 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.props
> 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.txt
> 13/11/2019  15:18                39 vcvars32.bat
> 13/11/2019  15:18                39 vcvars64.bat
> 07/10/2019  10:18             9,859 vcvarsall.bat
> 13/11/2019  15:18                43 vcvarsamd64_x86.bat
> 13/11/2019  15:18                43 vcvarsx86_amd64.bat
>
> Where the vcvarsall.bat batch file is the main file for setting up the toolchain and the smaller ones just call that with the appropriate parameter for Native x86 or x64 or cross compilation.

Looks exactly the same:

A00187+Richard.Sharpe@A00187 /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
Visual Studio/2019/Community
$ ls -al VC/Auxiliary/Build/
total 25
drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None    0 Nov 13 07:25 .
drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None    0 Nov 13 07:25 ..
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
Microsoft.VCRedistVersion.default.txt
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None  401 Nov 13 07:19
Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None  401 Nov 13 07:19
Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.props
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.txt
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   39 Nov 13 07:19 vcvars32.bat
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   39 Nov 13 07:19 vcvars64.bat
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None 9859 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsall.bat
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   43 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsamd64_x86.bat
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   43 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsx86_amd64.bat


So that's good.  Not sure why you don't then have the Start menu option for "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019".  You can make one manually in a regular Cmd prompt by calling the vcvars64.bat file from the above directory.

I would suggest not using Cygwin when doing this, it has been the source of lots of weird issues in the past.  In fact, I highly recommend that you keep Cygwin and Wireshark development on separate machines.

--
Graham Bloice