Re: Building Wireshark 3.4.0 documentation on Windows

["Maynard, Chris via Wireshark-dev" <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org> On Behalf Of
> John Dill
> Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:34 AM
> To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building Wireshark 3.4.0 documentation on
> Windows
>
> I build on Windows primarily and I've had recent issues with Strawberry Perl (as
> of 3.2.7, I haven't tried merging 3.4.0 yet into my local svn) giving an error that
> using ActivePerl did not during the build process.  I recommend trying
> ActivePerl instead of StrawberryPerl and see if the build issue resolves.

StrawberryPerl seems to work OK for me and I'd prefer to stick with it since that's what the buildbot uses.  But your 
recommendation is noted and it's good to keep this in mind in case just in case.

> Strawberry Perl gave me an error that I couldn't quite figure out, so I just tried
> ActivePerl.  It seemed to work so I didn't bother investigating further since
> using ActivePerl seemed to workaround the Windows build issue.
>
> I'm still floating on a Cygwin based tweak to the typical Windows build process
> for 3.2.7 since IT dept wouldn't "easily" allow Chocolatey for security reasons so
> my build environment isn't the usual kind.  I'll have to try 3.4.0 sometime this
> week and see how it goes.

Good luck!  Other than the documentation hiccup which is now resolved, moving from 3.2.x to 3.4.x was relatively 
painless.
- Chris



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