Re: Build ethereal under winXP

> Hi, all
> 
> I am newbie trying to use MSVC 6.0 to build ethereal under Windows XP,
> In my cygwin shell, I tried: 
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> $ nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean
> 

<munch>

> 
> 
> After directly download the source code(Ethereal-1.1.0-SVN-18188),
> unpacked it, try configure it, the following problem encounted 
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> $ ./configure
> checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin

<munch>


I believe the short answer is that the standard way to build Ethereal under 
windows  does *not* involve the use of configure & etc.

In essence:

1. Install basic cygwin (... bash & etc);

2. Download and unpack Ethereal source;

3. Look at (and change if desired) the config.nmake in the top-level Ethereal 
directory to specify certain things such the location of cygwin (CYGWIN_PATH) 
and the location to store various required library stuff (ETHEREAL_LIBS).

4. Determine/verify the presence of the required cygwin tools using 

    nmake -f makefile.nmake verify_tools

    (Download additional cygwin stuff as required)

5. Download the various required libraries by using

    nmake -f makefile.nmake setup


6. Make ethereal

     nmake -f makefile.nmake dist-clean 

     nmake -f makefile.nmake all


I've undoubtely left something out; the details can be found in the 
developer's guide available at:

    http://www.ethereal.com/docs/


Bill Meier