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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] build asn1.dll failed

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:12:14 +0200
Vladimir Zherdenovsky wrote:

>I am run nmake makefile.nmake for build ethereal, after checking that
>all the software are installed and all the zip packages downloaded and
>unpacked.
>The make process failed when building asn1.dll.
>I am using [0.10.11] release code, working on win32 (XP) and using VC
>6.0.
>Please help.
>
>   Creating library asn1.lib and object asn1.exp
>packet-asn1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __pctype
>packet-asn1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
>___mb_cur_max
>packet-asn1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _errno
>asn1.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
>  
>
There seems to be a strange problem in your configuration. The symbol:

_errno

should be coming from the compiler libs.

I don't know why this happens in the asn1 plugin, as it's not the first
plugin to be build, it should be a problem in acn already ?!?

Regards, ULFL