Re: Wireshark building fails with code page errors on a non-English Windows system

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

Le 3 juin 2016 18:24, "Yang Luo" <hsluoyb () gmail com> a écrit :
> Hi Pascal,
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
wrote:
> > Hi Yang
> >
> > 2016-06-03 17:03 GMT+02:00 Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com>:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I made a post on this list several months ago about compile errors of
Wireshark on Windows:. http://seclists.org/wireshark/2015/Dec/125
> > > The errors are something like:
91>J:\github_repos\wireshark-win64-libs\gtk2\include\glib-2.0\gobject/gsignal.h:
warning C4819: The file contains a character that cannot be represented in
the current code page(936). Save the file in Unicode format to prevent data
loss (J:\github_repos\wireshark\ui\gtk\about_dlg.c)
> > > [J:\github_repos\wsbuild64\ui\gtk\gtkui.vcxproj]
91>J:\github_repos\wireshark-win64-libs\gtk2\include\glib-2.0\gobject/gsignal.h:
warning C4819: The file contains a character that cannot be represented in
the current code page(936). Save the file in Unicode format to prevent data
loss (J:\github_repos\wireshark\ui\gtk\addr_resolution_dlg.c)
> > > [J:\github_repos\wsbuild64\ui\gtk\gtkui.vcxproj]
> > >
> > >
> > > I didn't actually solve this issue at that time. These days I revisited
this issue. And I tried Graham's method of using PowerShell (
http://seclists.org/wireshark/2015/Dec/127) but with no luck.
> > > I also tried to switch my CMD session to Unicode by running "chcp
65001" based on this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14109024/how-to-make-unicode-charset-in-cmd-exe-by-default,
but also the same errors.
> > > Finally I found a workaround. I went to "Control Panel" -> "Region"
window -> "Administrative" tab -> Change system locale.." button, then
switched the locale from Chinese to English, then rebooted. And the compile
went through smoothly this time.
> > > But in English locale, all my ANSI programs including .txt files with
Chinese characters are broken. They all show messy code. So this is only a
temporary hack.
> > > I wonder how other non-English Windows users compile Wireshark? Is
there a better solution to solve this issue? I'm using Win10 x64 system.
> > If you edit the
github_repos\wireshark-win64-libs\gtk2\include\glib-2.0\gobject\gsignal.h
file line 916 and replace the elipsis sign by ..., can you build with your
Chinese locale?
> I think you maybe want to say line 516 as Gerald said, and it works! I
can build Wireshark with Chinese locale now!

Thanks for confirming and sorry for the typo.
I will repackage the gtk2 bundle with this change and update our build
system.

> > If yes, we could repackage the gtk2 package to include the modification.
>
>
> Good!
>
> > Pascal.
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