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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling Wireshark for Win32

From: "news.gmane.com" <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:15:51 +0200
Alex,
 
thanks for reply. You're right, these compile flags cause the compiler to generate the file.
 
If you would read my mail, you would see, that build always fails. So your
    "after you build wireshark" 
assumption doesn't meet.
 
Thanks for suggesting
    nmake -f Makefile.bsc
 
I am not sure if this would help debugging, but when I invoke this command I get:
    NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '*.sbr'
probably related to the first problem.
 
--
Andy
 
 
If you are interested in debugging in a windows environment you can add the compile flags in config.nmake on the LOCAL_CFLAGS variable.:

   /FR to create .sbr files
   /Zi to create .pdb files

After you build wireshark, you can also do nmake -f Makfile.nmake wireshark.bsc to create the necessary files that will allow your debugger to find the source files.

Alex Lindberg


--- On Thu, 8/11/11, news.gmane.com <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: news.gmane.com <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling Wireshark for Win32
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 4:28 AM


"Stig Bjørlykke" <stig-Koulc05nefLNLxjTenLetw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> I am a bit surprised about a problem with compiling Wireshark 1.6.0 with
>> Visual Studio 2005 for Win32.

> Why do you build 1.6.0 when we have released 1.6.1?
> The issues you have are fixed in 1.6.1.

I don't want to build 1.6.x at all. I want to upgrade all my dissectors for
propriary protocols to Wireshark 1.6. Since there are no PDB files for 1.6.0
(found only for 1.7 at http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/)
and no import library files I need compile Wireshark with all that CygWin,
Python, ... installation.

Since the ABI should not change in the "stable branch" I should be able to
compile to any version as long as I only need a set of files to build a
dissector DLL and to debug the DLL in Wireshark.

*All I need is:*
- libwireshark.lib
- all PDB files
- all header files (these can be retrieved using SVN)

Should I expect that Wireshark source doesn't get through the supported
compiler? I know that there are bugs in any software, but usually a change
in the last part of the version number indicates a bugfix in the
implementation.

Okay, I follow your suggestiong, compiling 1.6.1....


Linking libwireshark.dll
link /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO .........
Creating library libwireshark.lib and object libwireshark.exp
GeoIP.lib(GeoIP.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt;
recompile module

BTW: The GeoIP-1.4.6-win32ws.zip has been downloaded during this try of
build.

--
Andy





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