Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] COMMON_FILES_GNU

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ian Schorr wrote:

> Out of curiosity, if one had never installed Ethereal from the binary 
> installer, where would one get some of the required DLLs that don't 
> seem to be part of the GTK, GLIB, ADNS etc packages, like 
> iconv-1.3.dll (or iconv.dll, according to the nsis script) or intl.dll?

All these dll's should be part of the packages, which can be found at: 
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/development

> And why does the ethereal.nsi seem to want to find files like 
> libglib-2.0-0.dll, libgtk-0.dll, adns_dll.dll, etc in the 
> ${COMMON_FILES_GNU} dir instead of the appropriate ${GTK_DIR}, 
> ${GLIB_DIR}, or ${ADNS_DIR} subdir?

Good question.

I think you are right, that the dll's (and some other files) should be 
used from the seperated dirs, instead of a common dir, at least where 
appropriate.

This seems to be historical, as the seperate dirs (GTK_DIR, ...) coming 
from the cleaner seperation, when preparing for the GTK2 versions.

Regards, ULFL