I figured it out! Thanks for all your help. Ignore my previous 2 messages.
> **Check that, I found how to make the installer. I downloaded NSIS,
> but now when I try to compile the makefile in the packaging directory,
> I get an error telling me "pod2html is not recognized as an internal or
> external command."
> --I just installed Perl, is there something special I need to do to
> make it recognize 'pod2html'?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I finally got it to compile, but now when I try and run ethereal.exe I
> get a message stating, "The procedure entry point
> g_main_context_iteration could not be located in the dynamic link
> library glib-1.3.dll."
> Is there a way to build the installer? I'm not sure what the line,
>
> MAKENSIS="C:/program files/nsis/makensis.exe"
>
> is refering to in the config.nmake file.
>
>
>>
>> Jaclyn-b-tech wrote:
>>
>>>I don't have any spaces in the directory... but I did try and put
>>>quotes around it but it didn't change anything.
>>>
>>>When running cleanbld.bat it tells me the following:
>>>Could Not Find C:\..\config.h
>>>Could Not Find C:\..\epan\config.h
>>>Could Not Find C:\..\epan\dfilter\config.h
>>>Could Not Find C:\..\text2pcap-scanner.c
>>>
>>>Then when I compile it tells me for every file that wtap-int.h is
>>>included in:
>>>wtap-int.h(30) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file:
>>>'glib.h': No such file or directory
>>>
>>>I extracted the source code I downloaded directly from the ethereal
>>>site into a directory. I also extracted the source for the libraries
>>>(glib, gtk+, net-snmp-5.0.6, wpdpack, zlib) into a directory and
>>>correctly listed the path in the config.nmake file. I have no idea
>>>what the problem is, have you compiled it in Windows 2000 before and
>>>had problems?
>>>
>>
>> H,
>>
>> The first times I tried to compile on Windows I had a lot of problems
>> due several small things. By doing some experiments, checking on what
>> arguments was sent in to the compiler and searching with Google and on
>> the Ethereal site I finally succeeded to compile.
>>
>> Some of the problems I had then have been removed in later versions
>> (and documentation has been improved a bit I think).
>>
>> However there might be some of the things I had problems with that may
>> be relevant in your case:
>>
>> First of all I downloaded some of the stuff from the wrong place,
>> instead of from here
>> http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/development/
>>
>> The I think I also made some mistakes with the paths in the
>> config.nmake file.
>>
>> When you look in the directory pointed out by the GLIB_DIR definition,
>> is there a lot of files in that directory:
>> acconfig.h
>> galloca.h
>> garray.h
>> :
>>
>> Is there a glib.h file in that directory?
>>
>> The thing is that when you extract the files from
>> glib-dev-20000805.zip it will put the files in a \src\glib\ directory
>> and its subdirectories.
>>
>> Assuming that you extracted the zip-file into e.g. C:\etherealdev\
>> then the glib.h file will probably be in the directory
>> C:\etherealdev\src\glib\ directory (or maybe
>> C:\etherealdev\glib-dev-20000805\src\glib) and you should try with
>> GLIB defined as: GLIB_DIR=C:\etherealdev\src\glib
>> (or GLIB_DIR=C:\etherealdev\glib-dev-20000805\src\glib)
>>
>> There could be similar issues with the other directories.
>>
>> If you still have problems then it would be good if you could send the
>> complete log, since it would be good to check what arguments are used
>> by the compiler.
>>
>> cl -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D_MT -D_DLL -MD
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H/ID:\ethereal src\
>> glib /ID:\ethereal src\zlib-1.1.3 -Zi -Fd\ -c
>> .\ascend-grammar.c.\ascend-scanne r.c .\ascend.c .\buffer.c .\csids.c
>> .\etherpeek.c .\file.c.\file_wrappers.c .\i 4btrace.c .\iptrace.c
>> .\lanalyzer.c .\libpcap.c .\netmon.c .\nettl.c.\netxray.c
>> .\ngsniffer.c .\radcom.c .\pppdump.c .\snoop.c .\toshiba.c .\wtap.c
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