The fact that you have to do an install-dep isn't documented anywhere...
It might not be a bad thing to add to readme.win32.
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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter
Johansson
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:19 AM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Ethereal to Wireshark issues
That is exactly why!
/ Peter
Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Isn't that why we have the install-deps build target?
>
> Thanx,
> Jaap
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Graham Bloice wrote:
>
>
>>> I rebuilt Wireshark to see if I could find any errors in the build.
I
>>> came across a few things.
>>>
>>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>
>>> rm -rf 0.99.2
>>>
>>>
>>> It actually removes the 0.99.2 directory after it builds the
plug-ins.
>>> And the whole "Cannot find module" error looks very similar to the
error
>>> I get at run time. Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> On windows, you can't run Wireshark from the build directory. The
makefiles
>> temporarily create an environment that can run the exe to generate
some docs
>> etc., then destroy it.
>>
>> I have a batch file that I run after building that copies all the
dll's and
>> exe's to the appropriate places that a previous standard install has
created
>> and I then run the app from there.
>>
>> You can also install nsis and make an installer, but that takes a lot
longer
>> than just copying the executables.
>>
>> Graham
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