Re: Win7 - 64 bit build

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

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<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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