Re: Attempted to build NSIS installer for 2.6.3

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

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 18:57, John Dill <John.Dill () greenfieldeng com> wrote:

> I'm trying to build an installer for Wireshark 2.6.3 on Windows using NSIS
> and I'm getting the following when I run
>
> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo nsis_package.vcxproj
>
> Here is the commands I used before hand:
>
> set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> set WIRESHARK_LIB_DIR=C:\Wireshark-win64-libs-2.6
> set PLATFORM=win64
> set QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\Qt5.8.0\5.8\msvc2015_64
Note that the release builds of 2.6 are built using Qt 5.9.5, although this
isn't likely to be your issue.


> cd wsbuild64
>
> cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" ..\wireshark-src
> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo /p:Platform=x64 Wireshark.sln
> (... ok ...)

Again note that the release builds of 2.6 are built using VS 2017, again
not likely to be your issue.  The Developers Guide is out of date here,
still showing VS 2015.


> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo nsis_package_prep.vcxproj (...
> ok ...)
> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo nsis_package.vcxproj
>
> ...
>         Processing config: C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS\nsisconf.nsh
>         File: "C:\Users\DillJA\Desktop\wsbuild64\docbook\user-guide.chm"
> -> no files found.
>         Usage: File [/nonfatal] [/a] ([/r] [/x filespec [...]] filespec
> [...]
>               /oname=outfile one_file_only)
>         Error in script "wireshark.nsi" on line 1173 -- aborting creation
> process
>
> Then it errors out with Build FAILED.
>
> I noticed that I can finish the NSIS installer script if I comment out the
> USER_GUIDE_DIR section, but I'm trying to install the right packages and
> can't seem to get this error to go away without modifying the wireshark.nsi
> script.
>
> I notice in the cmake that the build script can't find asciidoctor even
> though ruby is installed on Cygwin64, and if I do a 'gem list --local', I
> see 'asciidoctor (1.5.7.1)'.
>
> I tried to look for the packages asciidoctor in setup_x86_64.exe for
> Cygwin and couldn't find asciidoctorj, xsltproc, and docbook-bundle.
>
> Can someone familiar with the Windows build offer some hints?  Do I need
> to switch from Cygwin to Chocolatey (which I haven't tried yet)?
To build an NSIS installer does require the documentation to be built, and
this requires various bits of toolchain, hopefully all described in the
Developers Guide.  The release buildbots use the Chocolatey Asciidoctorj
package as described in the Developers Guide sect. 2.2.8.  I think you will
also need to install the Microsoft HTML Help Compiler, this seems to have
been erroneously removed from the docs, try here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21138

If you still have issues, please re-run the CMake configuration step,
redirecting the output to a file, e.g. "cmake ... > cmakeout.txt 2>&1" and
then post the file.

You can use the buildbot output to cross check against your installation,
especially the CMake configuration step over here:
https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-2.6/waterfall

-- 
Graham Bloice

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