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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Cmake on windows

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:39:28 -0800
On 3/5/20 2:36 PM, João Valverde wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/03/20 15:27, Dario Lombardo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm getting this output from a windows build
>>
>> -- Using VCINSTALLDIR: VCINSTALLDIR-NOTFOUND
>> -- Using MERGE_MODULE_DIR-NOTFOUND\Microsoft_VC142_CRT_x64.msm for the WiX installer
>> -- Configuring done
>> -- Generating done
>> -- Build files have been written to: D:/a/wireshark/wireshark/build
>>
>> What's going wrong? The rest of the output looks good.
>>
> 
> If I recall correctly you need to select some option from the Visual Studio installer that is not documented in the Wireshark docs.
> 
> This is only necessary for the WiX installer (not NSIS).
> 
> I can't recall the exact component you need to install at the moment and I can't look it up right now.

It's the "C++ 2019 Redistributable MSMs" component. An update to the Developer's Guide is inbound in change 36306.