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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 3.4.8 build from source tarball fails generating b

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:12:02 -0700
On 8/26/21 1:43 PM, Michael Lum wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the source tarball from the download page, extracted into c:\wireshark-3.4.8
I've got multiple Wireshark builds and multiple VS installations.
The last Wireshark build I did was 3.0.1.
I was following the Developer's Guide for the most part.
I am not using Git, Asciidoctor, Xsltproc or DocBook.
I installed strawberryperl.
I have nuked the ws348-64 directory and retried a couple of times and
always get the same results. (That's good ;))
These are my build settings:
 � set WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=C:\ws348-64
 � set WIRESHARK_VERSION_EXTRA=-StarSolutions-1
 � set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
 � set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
set QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.15.2\5.15.2\msvc2019_64
 � set WIRESHARK_CYGWIN_INSTALL_PATH=c:/cygwin64
Running this with administrator rights:
x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019
The command I ran:
"WIRESHARK_CYGWIN_INSTALL_PATH=c:/cygwin64"
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 c:\wireshark-3.4.8\
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 8.1 to target Windows 6.1.7601.
-- Generating build using CMake 3.21.2
-- LTO/IPO is enabled
-- Building for win64 using Visual Studio 16 2019
Working in C:\ws348-64\wireshark-win64-libs-3.4
Tag 2021-05-29-3.4 found. Skipping.
-- CMake build type: RelWithDebInfo
-- V: 3.4.8-StarSolutions-1, MaV: 3, MiV: 4, PL: 8, EV: -StarSolutions-1.
-- Linker flags: /LARGEADDRESSAWARE /MANIFEST:NO /INCREMENTAL:NO /RELEASE /guard:cf
-- Could NOT find Git (missing: GIT_EXECUTABLE)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: TieredCompilation is disabled in this release.
-- Could NOT find DOXYGEN (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
-- Could NOT find SpeexDSP (missing: SPEEXDSP_LIBRARY SPEEXDSP_INCLUDE_DIR) (found version "")
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: TieredCompilation is disabled in this release.
-- C-Flags:� /MP /Zo /utf-8 /guard:cf /w34295 /w34100 /w34189 /wd4200 /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3 /MD /Zi /O2 /Ob1 /DNDEBUG
-- CXX-Flags:� /MP /Zo /utf-8 /guard:cf /w34295 /w34100 /w34189 /wd4200 /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3 /GR /EHsc /MD /Zi /O2 /Ob
1 /DNDEBUG
-- Warnings as errors disabled
-- The following OPTIONAL packages have been found:
...
I get the following errors when generating the build files:
...
-- Using VCINSTALLDIR: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC
-- Using C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.29.30133\vcredist_x64.exe for the NSIS installer.
-- Configuring done
CMake Error in epan/CMakeLists.txt:
 � Target "epan" INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property contains path:
"C:/ws348-64/wireshark-win64-libs-3.4/vcpkg-export-20190318-win64ws/installed/x64-windows/include"
 � which is prefixed in the build directory.

CMake Error in epan/CMakeLists.txt:
 � Target "epan" INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property contains path:
"C:/ws348-64/wireshark-win64-libs-3.4/vcpkg-export-20190318-win64ws/installed/x64-windows/include"
 � which is prefixed in the build directory.

CMake Error in wsutil/CMakeLists.txt:
 � Target "wsutil" INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property contains path:
"C:/ws348-64/wireshark-win64-libs-3.4/libgcrypt-1.8.3-win64ws/include"
 � which is prefixed in the build directory.

CMake Error in wsutil/CMakeLists.txt:
 � Target "wsutil" INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property contains path:
"C:/ws348-64/wireshark-win64-libs-3.4/gnutls-3.6.3-1-win64ws/include"
 � which is prefixed in the build directory.

-- Generating done
CMake Generate step failed.� Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
C:\ws348-64>
I saw there was an old issue related to these kind of errors but that was fixed.
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17477 <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17477>
Any help would be appreciated.

I ended up reverting the fix for issue 17477 since it caused problems for people doing external plugin development (https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/3945). It looks like you're build directory and WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR are the same. Can you try using different directories?