Ulf Lamping wrote: >>I have MSVC 8.0 build 50727. I detest trying to use the M$ compiler >>suite, but sometimes the alternatives are worse. > > > Do you use the Express Edition or the Studio?
"Add Remove Programs" lists it as "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU" >>nmake Makefile.nmake clean > > > You might better use distclean > > >>moved my modified config.nmake and Makefile.nmake out of the build tree >>(these are the only files I have modified) > > > Did you enabled the MSVC_VARIANT setting for Visual Studio 2005 in > config.nmake line 73? > If you didn't this would explain problems ;-) - but I guess you've done so > already. Yes, I did. :) >>I enable HHC_DIR and disable AIRPCAP_DIR in config.nmake >> > > > You may better keep HHC_DIR disabled for now (it's optional) - let's fix one > thing at a time ;-) It's trivial to fix by changing HHC_LIBS as quoted lower down. >>It didn't build zlib and create the include and lib directories and copy >>the files into them early enough in the process for the sources that >>reference zlib.h to compile, so I did the zlib build by hand, and reran >>nmake > > > With my latest changes (yesterday), the "setup" target should download > zlib123.zip (instead of zlib123-dll.zip), > and compile the zlib source when running e.g. the "all" target (right before > wiretap is compiled). > > There's no longer need to compile zlib "by hand". Anders also observed it didn't build. If you did "nmake -k ..." it might build later on, and then rerunning nmake might work. >>Then it falls over because htmlhelp.lib is not in $(HHC_DIR)/lib. I said >>before VS8 includes hhc.exe in $(HHC_DIR) but the includes, libs and >>dlls are in the SDK, so I changed the HHC_LIBS in config.nmake >> >>!IF "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2005" >>HHC_LIBS=htmlhelp.lib >>!ELSE >>HHC_LIBS=$(HHC_DIR)\lib\htmlhelp.lib >>!ENDIF > > > I'll have a look at the HHC topic later. > > >>htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] referenced in function "int __stdcall >>GetRegisteredLocation(char *)" (?GetRegisteredLocation@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>wireshark.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 18 unresolved externals >>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio >>8\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460' >>Stop. >> > > > There seems to be some platform libs missing. > > >>Those are fixed by adding gdi32.lib advapi32.lib comdlg32.lib to >>wireshark_LIBS. >> > > > If you're running the express edition, did you followed the guidelines to > integrate the Paltform SDK into VC? > Details are at (especially step 4): > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ It's Studio. Not Express. > I'm not sure if it's better to depend on our developers that they've done > this or to add the libs to the linker flags. > Maybe the latter will make the whole process easier for our developers. I'd just like to be able to build a clean source tree. I had less trouble with MSVC2003 Professional. > P.S: Laurent mentioned a change in the linker flags that might be helpful > here as well, I'm currently waiting for a patch from him. Me too. Windows is not my platform of choice. -- There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
