Yes, PYTHON is the issue, and yes, this is an attempt to remove ncp2222
from wireshark in the absence of PYTHON. But, that attempt is broken.

Good find.

Gilbert

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Beth <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've run into a puzzling issue here, perhaps someone can explain it to me.
> I'm simply trying to build "all", but I get an unresolved external symbol
> in libwireshark.dll : ett_nds
>
> I've tracked down the definition of this symbol in packet-ncp.c.save,
> which is NOT part of the build.
> packet-ncp.c is empty.  This seemed strange, since I just checked out a
> clean copy of the repository
> head from SVN - I'd have expected it to build correctly right out of the
> box.
>
> After going in circles for some time, including deleting and re-checking
> out the source code,
> I discovered the following snippet in epan/dissectors/Makefile.nmake:
>
> packet-ncp2222.c: ..\..\tools/ncp2222.py
> !IFDEF PYTHON
>  @echo Making packet-ncp2222.c
> $(PYTHON) "../../tools/ncp2222.py" -o packet-ncp2222.c
> !ELSE
> @echo Faking packet-ncp2222.c...
> @echo Python is required to build the NCP disector
>  @echo Hiding packet-ncp.c...
> mv packet-ncp.c packet-ncp.c.save
> touch packet-ncp.c $@
> !ENDIF
>
> So it's happening because I haven't defined PYTHON.  I can fix that
> (missed a step in setting up the new PC I guess),
> but shouldn't wireshark build correctly either way?  Otherwise why have
> the ifdef at all?  You could just have nmake fail
> if python isn't defined.
>
> I'm asking these questions in order to make sure defining PYTHON really is
> the issue, and not something
> else that will crop up another way once I fix this particular thing.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> b.
>
>
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