> I have MSVC 8.0 build 50727. I detest trying to use the M$ compiler
> suite, but sometimes the alternatives are worse.
Do you use the Express Edition or the Studio?
> nmake Makefile.nmake clean
You might better use distclean
> moved my modified config.nmake and Makefile.nmake out of the build tree
> (these are the only files I have modified)
Did you enabled the MSVC_VARIANT setting for Visual Studio 2005 in config.nmake line 73?
If you didn't this would explain problems ;-) - but I guess you've done so already.
> I enable HHC_DIR and disable AIRPCAP_DIR in config.nmake
>
You may better keep HHC_DIR disabled for now (it's optional) - let's fix one thing at a time ;-)
> It didn't build zlib and create the include and lib directories and copy
> the files into them early enough in the process for the sources that
> reference zlib.h to compile, so I did the zlib build by hand, and reran
> nmake
With my latest changes (yesterday), the "setup" target should download zlib123.zip (instead of zlib123-dll.zip),
and compile the zlib source when running e.g. the "all" target (right before wiretap is compiled).
There's no longer need to compile zlib "by hand".
>
> Then it falls over because htmlhelp.lib is not in $(HHC_DIR)/lib. I said
> before VS8 includes hhc.exe in $(HHC_DIR) but the includes, libs and
> dlls are in the SDK, so I changed the HHC_LIBS in config.nmake
>
> !IF "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2005"
> HHC_LIBS=htmlhelp.lib
> !ELSE
> HHC_LIBS=$(HHC_DIR)\lib\htmlhelp.lib
> !ENDIF
I'll have a look at the HHC topic later.
> htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp__RegOpenKeyExA@20 referenced in function "int __stdcall
> GetRegisteredLocation(char *)" (?GetRegisteredLocation@@YGHPAD@Z)
> wireshark.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 18 unresolved externals
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460'
> Stop.
>
There seems to be some platform libs missing.
> Those are fixed by adding gdi32.lib advapi32.lib comdlg32.lib to
> wireshark_LIBS.
>
If you're running the express edition, did you followed the guidelines to integrate the Paltform SDK into VC?
Details are at (especially step 4): http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
I'm not sure if it's better to depend on our developers that they've done this or to add the libs to the linker flags.
Maybe the latter will make the whole process easier for our developers.
Regards, ULFL
P.S: Laurent mentioned a change in the linker flags that might be helpful here as well, I'm currently waiting for a patch from him.
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