Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems compliing ethereal on Windows NT wiretap, DLL not found

[Eddie Luc <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Graham,

    That did the job. Much appreciated.

    Might be good to mention this somewhere in the README.win32

cheers
Eddie Luc


Graham Bloice wrote:

> Eddie,
>
> Have you run VCVars32.bat which can usually be found in the
> "PathToVisualStudio\VC98\Bin" directory.
>
> This sets the path for VC.
>
> Graham
>
> >
> >     Hope somebody can help.
> >
> >     I'm providing more details about the problem I'm having with
> > building ethereal 9.4  on Windows NT.
> >
> >     I've downloaded the following:
> >
> > zlib-114-dev.zip
> > gtk+-dev-20001226.zip
> > extralibs-dev-20000722.zip
> > WPdpack_2_3.zip
> >
> > from http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/development
> >
> > I also installed cygwin.
> >
> > >>>>
> >     The PROBLEM I'm getting is when I compile on Windows NT, when I run
> >
> > nmake -f makefile.nmake
> >
> > is that cl.exe issues a prompt saying
> >
> >     "cl.exe - Unable to locate DLL"
> >
> > but it doesn't give me any other details, ie te DLL that is missing.
> >
> > This occurs in the  directory wiretap.
> >
> > I've seen the following message.
> >
> >     http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200206/msg00240.html
> >
> >     so does that mean ethereal version 9.4 can not compile on Windows
> > NT.
> >
> >
> > Anyway I think my problem is a PATH setting or environment setting one.
> > But I've tried everything I could think of.
> >
> > My config.nmake looks like this
> >
> > >>> START
> > # To be compiled on DemoNT a\or any machine which contains
> > # nmake and cygwin.
> > #
> > VERSION=0.9.4
> > RC_VERSION=0.9.4
> > WTAP_VERSION=0.0
> >
> > GTK_VERSION=1.3
> > GLIB_VERSION=1.3
> >
> > # GLIB_DIR=C:\ethereal-win32-libs\glib
> > # GTK_DIR=C:\ethereal-win32-libs\gtk+
> > # ZLIB_DIR=C:\ethereal-win32-libs\zlib-1.1.3
> > # PCAP_DIR=C:\ethereal-win32-libs\WPdpack
> >
> > GLIB_DIR=I:\dev\src\gtk\ethereal-lib-9.4\src\glib
> > GTK_DIR=I:\dev\src\gtk\ethereal-lib-9.4\src\gtk+
> > ZLIB_DIR=I:\dev\src\gtk\ethereal-lib-9.4\src\zlib-114
> > PCAP_DIR=I:\dev\src\gtk\ethereal-lib-9.4\WPdpack
> >
> >
> > LOCAL_CFLAGS=-Zi
> > LOCAL_LDFLAGS=/DEBUG
> >
> > # Set PDB_FILE according to your VC++ version
> > PDB_FILE=vc*.pdb
> >
> > # Set path if you need to find some binary
> > #PATH=c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin;c:\python22;c:\ethe
> > real\wiretap;c:\program
> > #files\common files\gnu;$(PATH)
> > PATH="D:\Program Files"\cygwin"; \
> >    "D:\Program Files"\cygwin\bin"; \
> >    "D:\Program Files\python22"; \
> >    "I:\dev\src\ethereal\ethereal-0.9.4\wiretap"; \
> >    "C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32"; \
> >    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin"; \
> >    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include"; \
> >    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib" \
> >    "D:\dev\src\tmpwindows\Include"; \
> >    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin" \
> >    $(GLIB_DIR) $(GTK_DIR)  $(ZLIB_DIR) $(PCAP_DIR) \
> >    "c:\program files\common files\gnu";$(PATH)
> >
> > PERL=perl
> > POD2MAN=pod2man
> > POD2HTML=pod2html
> > PYTHON="D:\Program Files\python22\python.exe"
> > LEX=flex
> > YACC=bison
> >
> > # Set YACC_OPTS if cygnus bison can't find template file.
> > #YACC_OPTS=-S t:\w32-ix86\cygnus\cygwin-b20\share\bison.simple
> >
> > # To build the installer
> > MAKENSIS="C:/program files/nsis/makensis.exe"
> >
> > >>>> END
> >
> > What is makensis.exe anyway and where do I get it?
> >
> >
> >         Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > cheers
> > Eddie Luc
> >
> >
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