Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Duplicate win32 setup code

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:

> The ethereal and ethereal-win32-libs SVN repositories both have 
> "setup" targets in Makefile.nmake and win32-setup.sh scripts that do 
> the same thing.  Should one be removed in favor of the other?
Yes, I would think so.

Now the question arises, which one?

I'm in favour of keeping the setup target in the ethereal distribution, 
because that's the more "natural way" to create a running environment.

As described in the development guide:

- get the ethereal source, by subversion or tarball
- get the tools
- download the libraries using the setup target in the sources

This way, we have only references from the ethereal sources to the libs 
(and only in config.nmake). Otherwise we have to duplicate settings from 
config.nmake in the libs setup target, which I really don't like.

Of course we should put a README.txt in the ethereal-win32-libs, simply 
pointing to the developer's guide.

BTW: the developer's guide will be helpful exactly to set up an win32 
development environment (as that's explained in detail), do we want to 
put that on the official website (currently only in the wiki)?

What do other's think?

Regards, ULFL