Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32: Get rid of the COMMON_FILES_GNU setting in config.nmake

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:

> Hello Ulf,
>
>
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Hi List!
> >
> > As there were already some things done in packaging/nsis/ethereal.nsi
> > which are not using the COMMON_FILES_GNU setting any longer,
> > and someone asked what this setting is useful for, I have checked in
> > changes, which are making this setting obsolete.
> >
>
> COMMON_FILES_GNU is not obsolete, it is still used in PATH in 
> config.nmake!
>
> tethereal.exe is called when we build the documentation for display 
> filters. Therefore all necessary dlls to run tethereal must be either 
> in the same directory as tethereal.exe (in this case it would be the 
> main directory of ethereal's sources) or in a directory which is 
> specified in the PATH variable in config.nmake.
>
> If you really want to use the dlls from within the source tree, you 
> will have to add the directories with the dlls of glib, iconv, adns , 
> pcre , winpcap etc. to the PATH variable *in* config.nmake. GTK is the 
> only exception here as tethereal doesn't need it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lars
Hmmm, my PATH looks different than your PATH :-)))

That explains, why I had to copy some of the DLLs to the main ethereal 
dir ;-), which I didn't liked at all.

I think the clean solution would be, to put all specific settings 
directly to the PATH variable, as I think this is more flexible than 
have a single dir to put all things in.

I will try to use the settings of the dirs, and check in a bugfixed 
version of config.nmake soon.

Regards, ULFL