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Wireshark windows build not working due to ZLIB

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Hi,

"The windows builds might be working at buildbot (buildbot Windows-XP-x8)."

New developers are stopped at first point (compilation ) we are not able to download the zlib-1.2.5.zip file required for compilation. ("same case for 64 Bit zlib125ws.zip" ).

The wget works but while unzipping it fails, Its not a problem with Zip utility (tried all util's on the planet 7zip,winrar,winzip... ) non worked.

some body has messed up with the zlib kept in the trunk.

I struggled a lot to get the proper zlib-1.2.5.zip and compiled it.

Please fix it .

Build bot will not face problem because after "nmake -f Makefile.nmake setup" the script will not download using wget if the zlib-1.2.5.zip is present in "c:\wireshark-win32-libs" directory.

I tried very hard for about a week to find a proper zlib.

Regards Harsha K Gowda

asked 23 Aug '12, 03:58

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edited 23 Aug '12, 04:42

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Try downloading the file from below link you will face the same problem. http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark-win32-libs/tags/2012-05-30/packages/

(23 Aug '12, 04:09) Harsha

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Works for me, using your link I'm able to download and open the zip file using 7-zip and Windows Explorer (on XP).

I've also just built on XP, deleting zlib-1.2.5.zip so ensuring setup downloaded it again with no issues.

answered 23 Aug '12, 04:42

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Thanks for checking . For some strange reason my firewall is blocking it. :)

(23 Aug '12, 06:47) Harsha