These instrctions are an abridged version of the instructions to build WireShark for Windows found here.
In this case, the regular traditional Windows Command Prompt is used for executing commands, not the Windows PowerShell.
Rather than using a mingw environment (for gcc) or using LLVM/clang, we opt to simply use Microsoft Visual Studio. However, the Chocolatey package manager provides builds for a number of additional tools that might make Windows development seem a bit more familiar for non-Windows developers.
First, we have to set up a virtual machine (VM) from the Google Cloud Console.
- Navigate to the Menu (☰), Compute Engine, and VM Instances
- Hit Create Instance
- Under Boot disk, select Change, then Operating System: Windows Server, and Version: Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Core, and hit Select
- Press Create
- When the VM is ready, click on the instance name "e.g. instance-1", and then Set Windows Password, Set, copy the password, and choose Close
- Hit the RDP button (requires Chrome RDP for Google Cloud Platform)
Install Chocolatey as described here.
@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command " [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
Note: This part could take an extraordinarily long amount of time.
choco install -y cmake visualstudio2019community visualstudio2019-workload-nativedesktop
set "PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin"
set "PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\bin"
set "PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build"Note, there are several sets of environment variables that may be used and they are listed here. Below, we are setting-up to build a 64-bit executable.
vcvars64
Here we create a subdirectory and files for a traditional Hello, World project using C++ and CMake.
mkdir hello
cd hello
notepad hello.cppThe contents of hello.cpp are blow.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;
return 0;
}Edit a CMake file using notepad CMakeLists.txt and paste the following into it.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
project(hello)
add_executable(hello hello.cpp)On Linux and other POSIX OS's, usually Makefiles are created. However, on Windows, the default approach is to use MSBuild. This requires calling some variant of the vcvars batch file (listed above) to set correct environment variables.
cmake .
msbuild hello.slnYou should observe output that appears something like the listing below.
C:\Users\username\hello>vcvars64
**********************************************************************
** Visual Studio 2019 Developer Command Prompt v16.6.0
** Copyright (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation
**********************************************************************
[vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
C:\Users\username\hello>cmake .
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.14393.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.26.28805.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.26.28805.0
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.26.28801/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.26.28801/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.26.28801/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.26.28801/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/username/hello
C:\Users\username\hello>msbuild hello.sln
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.6.0+5ff7b0c9e for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "-m" switch.
Build started 5/28/2020 3:18:47 PM.
Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.sln" on node 1 (default targets).
ValidateSolutionConfiguration:
Building solution configuration "Debug|x64".
ValidateProjects:
The project "ALL_BUILD" is not selected for building in solution configuration "Debug|x64".
Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.sln" (1) is building "C:\Users\username\hello\ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj" (2) on
node 1 (default targets).
InitializeBuildStatus:
Creating "x64\Debug\ZERO_CHECK\ZERO_CHECK.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
CustomBuild:
All outputs are up-to-date.
FinalizeBuildStatus:
Deleting file "x64\Debug\ZERO_CHECK\ZERO_CHECK.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild".
Touching "x64\Debug\ZERO_CHECK\ZERO_CHECK.tlog\ZERO_CHECK.lastbuildstate".
Done Building Project "C:\Users\username\hello\ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj" (default targets).
Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.sln" (1) is building "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.vcxproj.metaproj" (3)
on node 1 (default targets).
Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.vcxproj.metaproj" (3) is building "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.vcxproj"
(4) on node 1 (default targets).
InitializeBuildStatus:
Touching "hello.dir\Debug\hello.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild".
CustomBuild:
All outputs are up-to-date.
ClCompile:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.26.28801\bin\HostX64\x64\CL.exe /c /Z
i /nologo /W3 /WX- /diagnostics:column /Od /Ob0 /D WIN32 /D _WINDOWS /D "CMAKE_INTDIR=\"Debug\"" /D _MBCS /Gm- /EHsc
/RTC1 /MDd /GS /fp:precise /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /Zc:inline /GR /Fo"hello.dir\Debug\\" /Fd"hello.dir\Debug\vc142
.pdb" /Gd /TP /errorReport:queue C:\Users\username\hello\hello.cpp
hello.cpp
Link:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.26.28801\bin\HostX64\x64\link.exe /ER
RORREPORT:QUEUE /OUT:"C:\Users\username\hello\Debug\hello.exe" /INCREMENTAL /NOLOGO kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32
.lib winspool.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib /MANIFEST /MANIFESTUAC:"leve
l='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'" /manifest:embed /DEBUG /PDB:"C:/Users/username/hello/Debug/hello.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:
CONSOLE /TLBID:1 /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /IMPLIB:"C:/Users/username/hello/Debug/hello.lib" /MACHINE:X64 /machine:
x64 hello.dir\Debug\hello.obj
hello.vcxproj -> C:\Users\username\hello\Debug\hello.exe
FinalizeBuildStatus:
Deleting file "hello.dir\Debug\hello.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild".
Touching "hello.dir\Debug\hello.tlog\hello.lastbuildstate".
Done Building Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.vcxproj" (default targets).
Done Building Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.vcxproj.metaproj" (default targets).
Done Building Project "C:\Users\username\hello\hello.sln" (default targets).
Build succeeded.
0 Warning(s)
0 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:02.34Run Debug\hello
Hello, world!