Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building wireshark on Win7 gives me the error about win32.mak not found

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Graham Bloice
> <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 31 January 2015 at 19:27, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I am following the steps at this website:
>>>
>>> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
>>>
>>> and I get this error:
>>>
>>> c:\Users\blah-blah\Wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake verify_tools
>>>
>>> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
>>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>>
>>> Makefile.nmake(8) : fatal error U1052: file 'win32.mak' not found
>>> Stop.
>>>
>>> These appear to be in the environment:
>>>
>>> CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
>>> QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.4\msvc2013_64_opengl
>>> VisualStudioVersion=12.0
>>> WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=c:\Users\rjsharpe\Wireshark
>>> WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
>>> WIRESHARK_VERSION_EXTRA=-RJS
>>>
>>> What else do I need to do?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> See this thread
>> (https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201501/msg00026.html) about
>> windows build instructions.
>>
>> MS has dropped the file from the SDK for 8.x, so you have to copy the file
>> from a 7.x SDK which should have been installed along with VS2013.
>>
>> I seem to have not completed the task of updating the build instructions.
>
> OK, but copy it to where? To the 8.x SDK?

Copying it to the wireshark directory was enough. Maybe I did this a
year ago and forgot and then when I did a git clean -fxd I blew it
away :-(

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)