Hi List!
I'm having problems packaging the ethereal distribution for Win32.
The problem is, that inside the file "packaging\nsis\ethereal.nsi.in"
the path to the GNU dlls "c:\program files\common files\GNU"
is a fixed string inside the nsis file.
On my machine (WinNt German), the required files for example are in:
"E:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\GNU" which causes NSIS running into trouble...
To fix this:
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I found out, that the NSIS program itself is able to handle defines
directly inside its nsi file, and this defines can be set by commandline.
As the versioning of the output file is done by sed, the version settings also could be set directly
by the makefile using the commandline (-> so the running of sed is no longer required).
Changes needed in source:
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Change "ethereal.nsi.in" to handle defines from the caller instead of fixed strings (diff attached).
Change "Makefile.nmake" to call NSIS with the required definitions (diff attached).
Add a line to \config.nmake, setting the source directory of the GNU dll files.
For the settings currently used, this would be:
COMMON_FILES_GNU="c:\program files\common files\GNU"
For example, on my machine, this would be:
COMMON_FILES_GNU="E:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\GNU"
To think about:
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The file "ethereal.nsi.in" is no longer an infile then (it is a normal .nsi file),
so it could be renamed into "ethereal.nsi".
Regards, ULFL
P.S: I got no idea, in which version of NSIS the features used above were included.
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