Title: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FW: building ethereal with MSVC
I installed GNU bash for windows and tried using that. I have since installed cygwin, and got everything to work just fine.
Thanks for you reply,
- Mike
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
