Re: Win7 - 64 bit build

[Alex Lindberg <alindber () yahoo com>]

One additional item.  When building an NSIS install package on a Win7 64 bit system, the NSIS installs to "C:\Program 
Files (x86)\NSIS".  In config.nmake, the makensis.exe files uses "C:\Program Files", thus failing.

I did the following:
Added: PROGRAM_FILES_NSIS=%%ProgramFiles(x86)%%
Changed: MAKENSIS="$(PROGRAM_FILES)\NSIS\makensis.exe"
To:      MAKENSIS="$(PROGRAM_FILES_NSIS)\NSIS\makensis.exe"

Worked like a charm.  I would guess that there are more elegant solutions to the problem that would detect the path and 
make the correct choice.  I will leave that to folks smarter than me.




________________________________
 From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Win7 - 64 bit build
 



On 31 January 2013 00:18, Ed Beroset <beroset () mindspring com> wrote:

Alex Lindberg wrote:
> I was having issues compiling a x64 build of Wireshark on a Win7x64 bit PC.  I followed the instructions to the letter 
> as referenced in the Win build page:
> >      http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
> >
> > All to no avail.  After reinstalling several times and googling for most of the day, the answer was found.
> >
> > The referenced sugested setup batch file to build x64 Wireshark is:
> >
> > @echo off
> > echo Adding things to the path...
> > set PATH=%PATH%;.
> > set PATH=%PATH%;c:\cygwin\bin echo Setting up Visual Studio environment...
> > call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat" amd64 title Command Prompt (VC++ 2010)
> > The issue was that the vcvars32.bat amd64 branch is broken.  The script is looking for files that don't exist.
> >
> > To fix this the line 'call "c:\windows..." line should now read:
> >
> > call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\BIn\SetEnv.cmd" /x64
> >
> > The /x64 can be changed to set any number of different compile options.
Thanks for reporting back.  I have been intending to redo the build instructions for a while and this gives me both the 
confirmation that the existing instructions really need revision and that the edits that I have in mind will work.  Now 
all I need is to actually get around to doing the work!  :) Thanks!
> Ed

Note that the extra options to SetEnv could be important, the default is to build a debug version (/Debug), targeted at 
Win7 (/WIN7).  Read the first part of SetEnv to get all the options info.

Graham

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