Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Zlib 1.1.4 and MSVC++

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 Apr 2002 09:55:54 -0500
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:37, Gerald Combs wrote:
> Has anyone successfully built Ethereal with zlib 1.1.4 using MSVC++?  I
> downloaded the latest zlib package from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/
> (zlib114dll.zip), and modified wiretap/Makefile.nmake to link against
> "static32\zlibstat.lib" in the zlib library directory.  The linker now
> returns
> 
> zlibstat.lib(gzio.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _errno
> 
> and stops.  I also tried linking against the zlib DLL that comes with the
> package.  It compiled successfully, but the Ethereal executable couldn't
> open any capture files.
> 
>

No; I got the same result as you (I only tried the DLL).

--gilbert