Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] My Windows build seemed to be going so well until ...

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Graham Bloice
> <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19 June 2017 at 15:02, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Richard Sharpe
>>> <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am getting this:
>>>> ----------------------------
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>        "C:\Development\wsbuild64\Wireshark.sln" (default target) (1) ->
>>>>        "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj.metaproj"
>>>> (default target) (62) ->
>>>>        "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj"
>>>> (default target) (116) ->
>>>>          CUSTOMBUILD : I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
>>>> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/ht
>>>>        mlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl
>>>> [C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj]
>>>>          CUSTOMBUILD : compilation error : file
>>>> /cygdrive/c/Development/wireshark/docbook/custom_layer_chm.xsl line 8
>>>> e
>>>>        lement import
>>>> [C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj]
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> A quick search suggests that other people are seeing similar errors. I
>>>> definitely have access to the internet and am doing this from home.
>>>> Also, a wget from a different shell (cygwin) succeeds for that file.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some tool I have failed to install that is needed?
>>>
>>>
>>> No tool but you need whatever package supplies `htmlhelp.xsl`.
>>>
>>> Or you can remove the "--nonet" option which is what is preventing it from
>>> trying to get the file off the 'net (there was recently some discussion--but
>>> no resolution that I'm aware of--of the wiseness of using "--nonet").
>>>
>>>
>>
>> According to the Cygwin package index
>> (https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=htmlhelp.xsl&arch=x86_64)
>> that file should be part of the asciidoc package and in my build VM is in
>> etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl.
>
> Thanks for that. I will make sure that I have ascii doc installed. I
> extracted the command and ran it manually and initially it seemed that
> /etc/xml/catalog was empty, but I managed to copy that from a Linux
> system and got further.

Sigh. There is something really weird about my cygwin setup. I managed
to get past the previous problems and now am hitting this:

       "C:\Development\wsbuild64\Wireshark.sln" (default target) (1) ->
       "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\all_guides.vcxproj.metaproj"
(default target) (3) ->
       "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guides.vcxproj.metaproj"
(default target) (30) ->
       "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj.metaproj"
(default target) (32) ->
       "C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj"
(default target) (119) ->
         CUSTOMBUILD : I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd
[C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj]

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