Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] win32: nmake setup: can't find cl
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From: "Jacques, Olivier \(OpenCall Test Infra\)" <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:08:11 +0200
Tim,

Thanks for your answer.

> Have you done the following:
> 
> Do you intend to build using MSVC & CYGWIN tools?
> Was your Win32 build environment setup using the Developers Guide,
> sections 2.3 & 4.6.2?

Yes.

> If you intended to use MSVC & CYGWIN tools, a command prompt [DOS
> prompt] is the way to go!

This is what I was using (and I have been compiling Wireshark/Ethereal
for over 2 years).
 
> Also ensure that you have run vcvars32.bat before calling nmake.  This
> is normally in "Program Files\Microsoft Visual studio\VC98\bin".  This
> sets lots of important paths and env vars for MSVC6.

This was done too.

For the records, the issue vanished by re-installing cygwin from scratch
(without any other change). Something was screwed up there.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Olivier.