Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem in Window compile

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xxxxxxxxx>]

Naveen Kumar Kaushik wrote:

> Hi
> I was compiling ethereal with VC++ nmake utility.
> Make process got terminated while making plugin.c.
> Giving error Xplugin_table.h not found.
> Just to diagnose the problem i went through the plugins\Makefile.nmake
> only to find out that these Xplugin_table.h  file (and several other) are
> generated by plugin_gen.py.
>
>
> Xplugin_api.c: xyzzy plugin_gen.py plugin_api.c
> $(PYTHON) plugin_gen.py xyzzy
>
>
> Now input to this script is generated by
> gcc -aux-info xyzzy -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I$(GLIB_DIR) -I.. -c plugin_api_list.c
>
> Python is availabe and path is set in config.nmake but gcc is not availabe
> on my system.
> I tried to use cygwin gcc by setting cygwin gcc bin path in config.nmake.
> But make process is still crashing at the same point .
>
> Please tell me what is the solution of this problem as I am struck.
> Naveen
>  
Yes, this is a probelmatic dependency.  I expect things to work
better when you remove xyzzy from the Xplugin_api.c dependency list.
All the X* files in the relaese should be correct and do not need
regeneration.

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