Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FW: building ethereal with MSVC

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Michael Oliveras wrote:

> I think the first one did not go out as plain text -- sorry
>
>
> I have been building ethereal under linux for some time, and am trying 
> to get a build working under MSVC.
>
> I am trying to use the "nmake -f makefile.nmake setup" command to 
> automatically load all of the libs I need.
>
> the problem I am having is that bash is not found unless I have cygwin 
> installed.  I shouldn't need cygwin at all since I do not want to 
> build under cygwin.  I have bash installed under c:\bin.
Cygwin is used by me and others, to get all the unixish tools needed to 
build Ethereal (bash, sed, ...). The compiler and nmake from MSVC are 
used anyway.

> I tried modifying my config.nmake to make SH=c:\bin\bash  and several 
> combinations, however for every case I get "bash not found".
>
> Can someone give me a hint as to what I am doing wrong or maybe send 
> me a sample config.nmake file?
As it's not often tested, there might be places in the build process, 
where the bash is called directly (not using the $SH). Could you tell us 
where the "bash not found" message is shown (command line output), to 
give a hint where to look at?

Just for interest: if you don't use cygwin, where is your bash coming from?

Regards, ULFL