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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] PDB Files

From: Andreas <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:21:02 +0100
Am 20.11.2010 08:42, schrieb Andreas:
Where can I get the .PDB files for the Wireshark binaries? They are
created in the wireshark-gtk2 directory when you (successfully) compile
the sources. I am interested in the libwireshark.pdb and wireshark.pdb
of a recent version, i.e. 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and/or 1.2.13.

Background:
When debugging my own dissectors it's sometimes useful to trace into the
epan functions, what requires these debug program database.

I tried to compile the wireshark sources to generate libraries and PDBs. After "nmake -f Makefile.name setup" I started the build process. This fails always with this message:

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Andy@Falke /cygdrive/c/wireshark-1.4.1
$ nmake -f Makefile.nmake epan

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cd image
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" / -f Makefile.nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cd ..
        cd wiretap
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" / -f Makefile.nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        bison  -d -p ascend ascend.y -o ascend.c
/usr/bin/bison: m4 subprocess failed
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Cygwin\bin\bison.EXE' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
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What may be wrong here?


BTW: Despite the developer guide did not mentioned it, it was necessary to install sed in cygwin. I also renamed the /bin/link.exe so that the VS2008 linker could be found.


Andy