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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows build - all_guides fails on .chm files

From: chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:30:18 -0600
Fixed: Microsoft HTML Help Workshop missing.
Todo: Update documentation for creating build machine with link to tools needed and find link to proper download.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMake\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -P C:/Development/wireshark/cmake/modules/hhc.cmake HTML_HELP_COMPILER-NOTFOUND user-guide.hhp

Not found
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-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.17763.
-- Generating build using CMake 3.18.20081302-MSVC_2
-- LTO/IPO is enabled
-- Building for win64 using Visual Studio 16 2019
Working in C:\Development\wireshark-win64-libs

Tag 2020-09-30 found. Skipping.

-- CMake build type: RelWithDebInfo
-- V: 3.5.0-CDC_201118, MaV: 3, MiV: 5, PL: 0, EV: -CDC_201118.
-- Linker flags: /LARGEADDRESSAWARE /MANIFEST:NO /INCREMENTAL:NO /RELEASE /guard:cf
-- Could NOT find DOXYGEN (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
-- Could NOT find SpeexDSP (missing: SPEEXDSP_LIBRARY SPEEXDSP_INCLUDE_DIR) (found version "")
-- Could NOT find HTMLHelp (missing: HTML_HELP_COMPILER)
<snip>

Download and install HTML Help workshop

-- Found HTMLHelp: C:/Program Files (x86)/HTML Help Workshop/hhc.exe 


"4.6.4. HTML Help
HTML Help is used to create the User’s and Developer’s Guide in .chm format."


On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
New  Windows 10 build system so might be due to tool versions.

Any tips on how to diagnose this?


  "The build of 'C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\470a6095470174e9ce53bf13b7d8b057\developer_guide_chm.rule' depends on 'C:\DEVELOPMENT\WSBUILD64\DOCBOOK\DEVELOPER-GUIDE.CHM' which is produced by the build of 'C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\f552b4b7ccfbf74b38fc77eac37cc368\developer-guide.chm.rule'. The items cannot be built in parallel."
  "The build of 'C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\470a6095470174e9ce53bf13b7d8b057\user_guide_chm.rule' depends on 'C:\DEVELOPMENT\WSBUILD64\DOCBOOK\USER-GUIDE.CHM' which is produced by the build of 'C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\f552b4b7ccfbf74b38fc77eac37cc368\user-guide.chm.rule'. The items cannot be built in parallel."

<snip>

Build succeeded.

"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\all_guides.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\developer_guides.vcxproj" (default target) (3) ->
"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\developer_guide_chm.vcxproj" (default target) (4) ->
(CustomBuild target) ->
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(238,5): warning MSB8065: Custom build for item "C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\f552b4b7ccfbf74b38fc77eac37cc368\developer-guide.chm.rule" succeeded, but specified output "c:\development\wsbuild64\docbook\developer-guide.chm" has not been created. This may cause incremental build to work incorrectly. [C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\developer_guide_chm.vcxproj]


"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\all_guides.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guides.vcxproj" (default target) (10) ->
"C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj" (default target) (11) ->
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(238,5): warning MSB8065: Custom build for item "C:\Development\wsbuild64\CMakeFiles\f552b4b7ccfbf74b38fc77eac37cc368\user-guide.chm.rule" succeeded, but specified output "c:\development\wsbuild64\docbook\user-guide.chm" has not been created. This may cause incremental build to work incorrectly. [C:\Development\wsbuild64\docbook\user_guide_chm.vcxproj]

    2 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

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