Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compilation error on Windows with VC 6

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abhijit Mirajkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could successfully compile the version 1.0.0 tarball with Visual C++ 2005
> Express Edition and Platform SDK Server 2003 R2. However I am getting
> compilation error when I use Visual C++ 6.0 instead of VC 2005  EE.
> <snip>
>
> I am attaching the compilation output with the errors below for your
> reference. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> =====
> Compiling...
> gui_prefs.c
> gui_utils.c
> help_dlg.c
> D:\Programs_Win2K\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003
> R2\Include\html
> help.h(374) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier
> 'dwData'

There may be several different things goiung on  ....

However: first things first:

If you are compiling with VC6 I would not have expected
"D:\Programs_Win2K\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 
R2\include\html"
to be in the include path.

1. Did you start a fresh "cmd" window and then execute the vc6 setup 
file "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\vcvars32" ?
(The actual location of the VC6 setup file might be different depending 
upon how VC6 was installed on your PC).

2. Did you do a distclean ??

3. Did you edit the config.nmake file to set the proper value for 
MSC_VARIANT ?