Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling errors (Win32)

[Andrew Suter <suter.andrew@xxxxxxxxx>]

I manged to resolve this issue by navigating
to:
c:\wireshark-rim\epan\dissectors 

and running: 
c:\python26\python.exe
"../../tools/ncp2222.py" -o packet-ncp2222.c

Prior to this, no matter what I did I got a packet-ncp2222.c file that contained nothing.  After doing this it contained code.  I manually defined my PYTHON_VER and PYTHON_DIR in config.nmake and I think this causes a problem with epan\dissectors\Makefile.nmake when it checks for the PYTHON var:

!IFDEF PYTHON
    @echo Making register.c (using python)
    @$(PYTHON) "../../tools/make-dissector-reg.py" . dissectors $(ALL_DISSECTORS_SRC)
!ELSE
    @echo Making register.c (using sh)
    @$(SH) ../../tools/make-dissector-reg . dissectors $(ALL_DISSECTORS_SRC)
!ENDIF

packet-ncp2222.c: ..\..\tools/ncp2222.py
!IFDEF PYTHON
    @echo Making packet-ncp2222.c
    $(PYTHON) "../../tools/ncp2222.py" -o packet-ncp2222.c
!ELSE
    @echo Faking packet-ncp2222.c...
    @echo Python is required to build the NCP disector
    @echo Hiding packet-ncp.c...
    mv packet-ncp.c packet-ncp.c.save
    touch packet-ncp.c $@
!ENDIF

packet-ncp2222.obj: packet-ncp2222.inc


Hopefully this works for you too.