Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Broken build (MSVC) rtnet.c fails to build

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris schrieb:
> Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:
>
> > Sorry to say it still does not work, does it have to be added to the 
> > plugins API?
>
>
> Unfortunately, that won't work - if "flags_set_truth" were #defined as 
> (*p_flags_set_truth), "&flags_set_truth", i.e. "p_flags_set_truth", 
> couldn't be used in a static initialization.
>
> It should work if you build libethereal as a DLL *and* undefine 
> PLUGINS_NEED_ADDRESS_TABLE in the top-level config.h.
You can also uncomment LINK_PLUGINS_WITH_LIBETHEREAL in config.nmake 
instead.

> If that does work, is it time that we just *require* that libethereal be 
> built as a DLL on Windows - and get rid of the plugin API table stuff 
> entirely?
The problem here might be that "flags_set_truth" is a variable and not a 
function. AFAIK the plugin API table contains only functions.

Regards,
Lars