Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling with VC++ 2005 Express Edition?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Stephen Fisher wrote:
> Ulf,
>
> Have you built Wireshark with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition 
> (with Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows 2003 R2 in the WinXP build 
> environment) yet?  
Yes, and it's working fine (however, I had to tweak some setting files).
> I've never tried compiling Wireshark on Windows 
> before so I don't know what these errors even mean:
>
> ascend-scanner.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
> __imp__strdup ref erenced in function _ascendlex
>
> I end up getting "34 unresolved externals" that all appear to be 
> standard C functions such as fprintf, fdopen, lseek, etc preceeded by 
> __imp___(?).  This is early in the build process where it's linking the 
> wiretap library together.
>   
It seems that the compiler don't finds the msvcrt.lib.
> I don't mean to be pushy; I appreciate your work to get Wireshark to 
> compile with newer versions of VC++.  I would love to be able to compile 
> Wireshark with the free compiler from Microsoft if possible
Please wait just a few more days, I'm currently in the process of 
polishing the compile process which might solve your problems right away.

Regards, ULFL