Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Makefile.nmake problem

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From: "Andrew Feren" <aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:35:16 -0400
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From: "Biot Olivier" <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Andrew Feren'" <aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "'Ethereal development'" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Makefile.nmake problem


> |From: Andrew Feren
> |
> |
> |It's been a while and I'm in the process of setting up a
> |Windows build again.  I am getting a couple of problems I
> |don't recall having before.
> |
> |nmake (Version 1.50) is complaining about the following rule
> |(line 23 of the top level Makefile.nmake).
>
> Mmh... I strongly suspect you're trying to build Ethrereal with the
recently
> released MSVC++ 2003 Toolkit and an old nmake found on the Microsoft
support
> site. I have to disappoint you: this won't work (I have tried it).

Good instincts and bummer!

Out of curiousity, was the problem just nmake or did you have problems
compiling too?  Or did you never get past the nmake problem?

> You really need MSVC++ 6 (definitely not a more recent version, because of
> mainly licensing reasons).

Yeah saw that in one of the README files.  Oh well.  It seemed promising at
the time.

Thanks,
-Andrew