Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building on Windows with CMake: Status and help needed

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 October 2013 15:37, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/6/13 4:35 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
> On 10/6/2013 7:27 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
>> The executables now compile and link except the gtk and qt guis.
>> I have not yet been able to run the executables as running the binaries
>> inside the build tree doesn't seem to work (unlike on linux).
>> Ideas how to get this to work?
>>
>> Thanks
>>     Jörg
>>
>
> This is undoubtedly about the fact that Makefile.nmake copies lots of
> DLLs and etc to a separate "run" directory.
>
> The exe's won't run from the build dir on Windows.
>
> See install_all: target in Makefile.nmake (top-level)
>
> ...
> # "install-all" will copy all files needed to run Wireshark/Tshark
> # to the INSTALL_DIR, so you can run/debug Wireshark/Tshark from there.
> install-all: install-generated-files
> ...

Dependency Walker (www.dependencywalker.com) is pretty useful for
finding dependent DLLs.

I forgot to mention that when I mentioned "dumpbin /dependants" earlier.