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authorBill Meier <wmeier@newsguy.com>2014-05-01 10:54:27 -0400
committerBill Meier <wmeier@newsguy.com>2014-05-01 15:10:18 +0000
commitb31381dd7082beef05bf7e6717f2867007dd5b44 (patch)
treeea832a173db040b10f76aa320da6c8d802c3acec /config.nmake
parent6a8052434192b36c6d4abfb4644ec54827b3812a (diff)
Add a comment re VS2013EE requiring that win32.mak needs to be separately obtained.
Change-Id: I53413f7bdde50149fd923bbe35c995145d5139f2 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1458 Reviewed-by: Bill Meier <wmeier@newsguy.com>
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@@ -137,20 +137,19 @@ MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2013
# "Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition"
# Visual C++ 11.0, _MSC_VER 1700, msvcr110.dll
## Notes:
-## 1. Sep 20,2012: *Beta*: Build with VC11 (2012) succeeds; Seems OK: Minimally tested;
-## win32.mak is apparently not part of the MS 2012EE install;
-## To build Windows Wireshark, win32.mak must be obtained*
+## 1. win32.mak is apparently not part of the MS 2012EE install;
+## To build Windows Wireshark, win32.mak must be obtained [*]
## and copied to a dir specified in the Windows Environment
## variable 'include' (or to a dir added to the list in 'include').
-## *One possibility: download the Windows 7 Platform SDK and copy
+## Note that the 'include' environment variable is initialized
+## when vcvarsall.bat is called to set up the build environment.
+## [*]One possibility: download the Windows 7 Platform SDK and copy
## win32.mak from ...\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.[something]\include
## See: http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/14343/setting-development-project-under-visual-studio-2012
## 2. Dec 28,2012: "VS2012 Update 1" is required to use VS 2012 to build an .exe which
## will run on Windows XP (as well as on later versions of Windows).
## ToDo: It appears that some special setup is required to to do this.
## https://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/10357555.aspx
-## 3. Feb 07,2013: [WMeier] I've noted no problems to date with Wireshark built with VS2012
-## based upon a fair amount of use while doing Wireshark testing and debugging.
##
#MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2012EE
@@ -164,6 +163,16 @@ MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2013
# "Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition"
# Visual C++ 12.0, _MSC_VER 1800, msvcr120.dll
+## Notes:
+## 1. win32.mak is apparently not part of the MS 2013EE install;
+## To build Windows Wireshark, win32.mak must be obtained [*]
+## and copied to a dir specified in the Windows Environment
+## variable 'include' (or to a dir added to the list in 'include').
+## Note that the 'include' environment variable is initialized
+## when vcvarsall.bat is called to set up the build environment.
+## [*]One possibility: download the Windows 7 Platform SDK and copy
+## win32.mak from ...\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.[something]\include
+## See: http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/14343/setting-development-project-under-visual-studio-2012
#MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2013EE
# The default if we haven't set a system environment variable or