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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] cygpath: cannot create short name of C:\wireshark-win32-libs

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:14:43 +0100
Robert Trybis wrote:

On Windows XP when trying to run the Automated library dowload

the command

nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup

fails if the directory C:\wireshark-win32-libs does not exist.

Easily solved by creating the directory before attempting the download.

Output showing the problem given below.

Hi!

I've changed the script (two weeks ago?) so it will try to create the output dir if it's not available already.

Regards, ULFL