Re: Building on Windows

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:56 AM Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice () trihedral com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 17:36, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:30 AM Graham Bloice
> > <graham.bloice () trihedral com> wrote:
> > > Normally (as in the half dozen or so systems I have checked on) you would have:
> > >
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCRedistVersion.default.txt
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18               401 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18               401 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.props
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18                13 Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.txt
> > > 13/11/2019  15:18                39 vcvars32.bat
> > > 13/11/2019  15:18                39 vcvars64.bat
> > > 07/10/2019  10:18             9,859 vcvarsall.bat
> > > 13/11/2019  15:18                43 vcvarsamd64_x86.bat
> > > 13/11/2019  15:18                43 vcvarsx86_amd64.bat
> > >
> > > Where the vcvarsall.bat batch file is the main file for setting up the toolchain and the smaller ones just call 
> > > that with the appropriate parameter for Native x86 or x64 or cross compilation.
> >
> > Looks exactly the same:
> >
> > A00187+Richard.Sharpe@A00187 /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> > Visual Studio/2019/Community
> > $ ls -al VC/Auxiliary/Build/
> > total 25
> > drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None    0 Nov 13 07:25 .
> > drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None    0 Nov 13 07:25 ..
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
> > Microsoft.VCRedistVersion.default.txt
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None  401 Nov 13 07:19
> > Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
> > Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None  401 Nov 13 07:19
> > Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.props
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   13 Nov 13 07:19
> > Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.txt
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   39 Nov 13 07:19 vcvars32.bat
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   39 Nov 13 07:19 vcvars64.bat
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None 9859 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsall.bat
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   43 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsamd64_x86.bat
> > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators A00187+None   43 Nov 13 07:19 vcvarsx86_amd64.bat
>
> So that's good.  Not sure why you don't then have the Start menu option for "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 
> 2019".  You can make one manually in a regular Cmd prompt by calling the vcvars64.bat file from the above directory.

I will give that a try later and see if things match up.

> I would suggest not using Cygwin when doing this, it has been the source of lots of weird issues in the past.  In 
> fact, I highly recommend that you keep Cygwin and Wireshark development on separate machines.

I only have one Dev laptop unfortunately, although I have some VMs I could use.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)
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