Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building wireshark on Win7 gives me the error about win32.mak not found

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 31 January 2015 at 20:50, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Graham Bloice
>> <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 31 January 2015 at 19:27, Richard Sharpe
>> > <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi folks,
>> >>
>> >> I am following the steps at this website:
>> >>
>> >> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
>> >>
>> >> and I get this error:
>> >>
>> >> c:\Users\blah-blah\Wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake verify_tools
>> >>
>> >> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
>> >> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>> >>
>> >> Makefile.nmake(8) : fatal error U1052: file 'win32.mak' not found
>> >> Stop.
>> >>
>> >> These appear to be in the environment:
>> >>
>> >> CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
>> >> QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.4\msvc2013_64_opengl
>> >> VisualStudioVersion=12.0
>> >> WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=c:\Users\rjsharpe\Wireshark
>> >> WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
>> >> WIRESHARK_VERSION_EXTRA=-RJS
>> >>
>> >> What else do I need to do?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > See this thread
>> > (https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201501/msg00026.html)
>> > about
>> > windows build instructions.
>> >
>> > MS has dropped the file from the SDK for 8.x, so you have to copy the
>> > file
>> > from a 7.x SDK which should have been installed along with VS2013.
>> >
>> > I seem to have not completed the task of updating the build
>> > instructions.
>>
>> OK, but copy it to where? To the 8.x SDK?
>>
>
> As I mentioned in my email, to the relevant place in the 8.x SDK:
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>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include"

Now that you mention it, I notice that it is actually in the guide as
well. I missed it in all the other stuff in there.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)