Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem linking plugin in Win32

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Thomas Boehne wrote:

> On Friday 17 September 2004 16:38, Ulf Lamping wrote:
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> > Thomas Boehne wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I could not compile the source (even without my plugin) without
> > > Cygwin. But the documentation suggested that there is a way to compile
> > > without Cygwin. (The problem may have occurred because I compiled the
> > > source on Linux first, then moved it to Windows and ran cleanbld.)
> > >      
> > What do you mean by "without cygwin"? Do you mean a specific place in
> > the document?
> >    
>
> First of all, the automated library download requires cygwin (bash,
> wget, unzip, ...). However, that could be done manually.
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> > It should be possible to compile without cygwin, but yes, it's not well
> > documented.
> >
> > What exact problem (which messages) did you get when doing this?
> >    
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> Compiling a plain vanilla 0.10.6 source code without cygwin fails
> immediately. The all: target in Makefile.nmake requires config.h, and
> the config.h: target requires sed.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>  
Well, yes, your simply missing, that you need these tools, but you don't 
necessarily need the cygwin versions. These tools are also available as 
native win32 versions (not requiring cygwin), but please don't ask me 
where, as I'm not interested in using them.

The disadvantage is, that there's no single place to download that 
tools, so it's not easy and not recommended to do so.

However, some people don't like cygwin, so yes it's possible to use 
native tools.

Regards, ULFL