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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem Compiling Wireshark under Win32

From: Ed Beroset <beroset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:13:44 -0400 (EDT)
Fox-Moore Ben wrote:
>I had a "vcredist_x86.exe is missing" error which I fixed by download vcredist_x86.exe and putting it in C:\wireshark-win32-libs, however I now get another error:
>
>tools/win32-setup.sh: line 10: sed: command not found

Here's the problem.  If you look at tools/win32-setup.sh you'll see that it requires sed.  Easily fixed by using cygwin's setup facility and installing sed.  Also, for what it's worth, I came across a similar kind of problem recently in which I ultimately discovered that the problem was that I had recently installed WinARM (ARM processor tools for Windows) and because of where it was in the path, win-setup.sh was attempting to use the mkdir facility in that toolchain (which would seem to work but not actually create a directory!).  I found that pretty quickly by using "which mkdir" at the Windows command line and then manually altering the path.

Ed