Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building wireshark on Win7 gives me the error about win32.mak not found

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 January 2015 at 20:50, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 31 January 2015 at 19:27, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am following the steps at this website:
>>
>> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
>>
>> and I get this error:
>>
>> c:\Users\blah-blah\Wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake verify_tools
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> Makefile.nmake(8) : fatal error U1052: file 'win32.mak' not found
>> Stop.
>>
>> These appear to be in the environment:
>>
>> CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
>> QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.4\msvc2013_64_opengl
>> VisualStudioVersion=12.0
>> WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=c:\Users\rjsharpe\Wireshark
>> WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
>> WIRESHARK_VERSION_EXTRA=-RJS
>>
>> What else do I need to do?
>>
>>
>
> See this thread
> (https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201501/msg00026.html) about
> windows build instructions.
>
> MS has dropped the file from the SDK for 8.x, so you have to copy the file
> from a 7.x SDK which should have been installed along with VS2013.
>
> I seem to have not completed the task of updating the build instructions.

OK, but copy it to where? To the 8.x SDK?

As I mentioned in my email, to the relevant place in the 8.x SDK:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include"

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Graham Bloice