Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Trying to build Ethereal on Win32 with the MSVC++ Toolkit 2003

["Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list,

I'm trying to compile Ethereal on WinXP with the recently released
MSVC++ command-line toolkit.

First of all you need to download and install this toolkit from this
link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

Then you need NMAKE. Fortunately NMAKE 1.5 can be downloaded from
Microsoft if you search for "KB132084". Unpack the archive by running
it, and drop the 3 extracted files in the MSVC++ Toolkit "bin"
directory.

Now it's time to edit config.nmake.

Now read README.win32 and try to run the 1st make (nmake -f
Makefile.nmake setup). You'll note that you don't have "Win32.mak" as
it is not shipped with the Toolkit.

Fortunately you can get around this issue by browsing to
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/
where you select the "Core SDK" and only tick the "Build Environment"
(31MB) option. After a while, this SDK will be installed.

>From the start menu, choose "Programs"
-> "Microsoft Platform SDK February 2003"
-> "Open build environment window"
-> (choose your OS Win2K/WinXP/Win2003)
A command prompt will open. Now run the vcvars32.bat from the MSVC++
Toolkit so your build environment will work:

And now you're stuck since NMAKE 1.5 doesn't like the '::' for suffix
rules in Makefiles. So I got rid of the "::" in the ".c.obj::" target
of all Makefile.nmake files. From the cygwin prompt, type:
$ find . -name Makefile.nmake -exec grep -l "^[.].*::" {} ';'

Now nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup works!

Now you want to run "nmake -f Makefile.nmake" but it won't work as
your PATH contains space characters. The simplest way of figuring your
path is by cd'ing to a directory with spaces in it and then type
"command" and then "exit".

Once you've done this, you're ready to compile... for a while as
PCAP.H wants to include <sys/time.h> which means WIN32 has not been
defined. So edit config.nmake and add "/DWIN32" to the compiler flags.

Now again try running "nmake -f Makefile.nmake". Again you will be
able to compile for a while, after what it will fail again:

<start>
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal\wiretap>nmake -f
Makefile.nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        link  /INCREMENTAL:NO
/NOLOGO -entry:_DllMainCRTStartup@12 -dll kernel32.lib  ws2_32.lib
mswsock.lib advapi32.lib  /DEBUG  /DEF:wtap.def /OUT:wiretap-0.1.dll
/IMPLIB:wiretap-0.1.lib  airopeek9.obj  ascend-grammar.obj
ascend-scanner.obj  ascend.obj  atm.obj  buffer.obj  cosine.obj
csids.obj  dbs-etherwatch.obj  erf.obj  etherpeek.obj  file_access.obj
file_wrappers.obj  hcidump.obj  i4btrace.obj  iptrace.obj
lanalyzer.obj  libpcap.obj  netmon.obj  nettl.obj
network_instruments.obj  netxray.obj  ngsniffer.obj  radcom.obj
pppdump.obj  snoop.obj  toshiba.obj  eyesdn.obj  visual.obj  vms.obj
wtap.obj  5views.obj
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\gl
ib-2.0.lib
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\gm
odule-2.0.lib
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\glib\lib\go
bject-2.0.lib
C:\cygwin\home\Eigenaar\ethereal\Win32\ethereal-win32-libs\zlib121-dll
\lib\zdll.lib

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'MSVCRT.lib'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
'0x450'
Stop.
<end>

Here I am definitely stuck :(

Has this to do with the fact that the MSVCRT.DLL and the likes are not
included in the MSVC++ Toolkit? As I am not familiar at all with the
MSVC compiler suite, I'd like to know what I have to do in order to
continue compilation. Maybe some Makefile.nmake have to be redefined?

I have attached all changes I made to the normal cvs snapshot.

Anyone a clue?

Regards,

Olivier

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