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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Win64 build support

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:12:54 +0100
Hi Brian,

As stated here (http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html),
you need to install cygwin and python to be able to compile Wireshark
on your box. If you follow the guide, it will work flawlessly :)

Regards,
Pascal.

2009/3/17 Brian Daniel <daniel_brian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Thanks Gerald & Guy,
>
> Since http://buildbot.wireshark.org/trunk/waterfall shows green & yellow
> on wireshark win32 I've been downloading the latest svn compiled wireshark
> win32 once or twice a day for a few days now and they all seem really stable
> so far and even seems to be stable on my Windows Vista 64-bit. My attempts
> to compile win32 and win64 myself crashed and burned again.
>
> C:\wireshark>set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
> C:\wireshark>set PLATFORM=win64
> C:\wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>         rm -rf wireshark-gtk2
> 'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'rm' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
> C:\wireshark>
>
> I must be doing something really OS level dumb because, rm -rf (directory)
> is a linux command but I'm using XP Pro 32-bit to try and compile wireshark
> as win32 and win64.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Brian Daniel <daniel_brian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Cool thanks folks! Since
>> http://buildbot.wireshark.org/trunk/waterfall shows failed on both wireshark
>> win32 and win64, I'll hold off on my svn update until later tonight when
>> both are green.
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You should now, along with updating SVN. I just checked in a change to
>>> use
>>> WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM (note the fixed spelling) instead of PLATFORM.
>>>
>>> Config.nmake sets CPU according to WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM. You
>>> shouldn't have
>>> to set it yourself.
>>>
>>> Brian Daniel wrote:
>>> > Yep, turns out I need to keep my setting: Platform=BPC
>>> > Should I use WIRESHRK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64 ??
>>> > For now, I'll try to temporarily change to Platform=win32 or win64 each
>>> > time I launch the cmd.exe
>>> >
>>> > Also, what CPU= should I put for my Intel Core2 Quad Q6600?
>>> > x86 is a solution for a very old Intel CPU.
>>> > Many Thanks,
>>> > Brian
>>> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > <mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     > Should we use something more Wireshark-specific, e.g.
>>> >     > WIRESHRK_TARGET_PLATFORM
>>> >     > instead?
>>> >
>>> >     That might work better.  When Googling for information about this I
>>> >     found at least a couple of instances of some annoying bit of
>>> > software
>>> >     insisting on setting the PLATFORM environment variable to some
>>> > silly
>>> >     string such as BPC or HPC and breaking MSVC++ builds, so if we can
>>> >     avoid depending on PLATFORM at all, that might at least keep us
>>> > from
>>> >     getting hosed by those programs.
>>> >
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