Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Not possible to run wireshark from root dev dir on Windows

[Peter Johansson <Peter.xc.Johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Peter Johansson wrote:
>   
> > I have recently noticed that wireshark.exe and wireshark-gtk2.exe no 
> > longer can be run from the root development directory on Windows because 
> > a set of dlls files no longer gets copied there by the build target 
> > install-deps ("nmake -f makefile.nmake install-deps"). For example 
> > wiretap-0.3.dll, libwireshark.dll, adns_dll.dll, libgnutls-14.dll, 
> > libgcrypt-11.dll and libgpg-error-0.dll.
> > Instead all works fine if run from the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk1\ 
> > and the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk2\ directories.
> >
> > Is this behaviour by feature or design?
> >
> >   
> >     
> That's by design.
>
> See: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200609/msg00425.html
I see. Should perhaps the files capinfos.exe, dumpcap.exe, editcap.exe, 
mergecap.exe, randpkt.exe, rdps.exe, text2pcap.exe, tshark.exe, 
wireshark-gtk2.exe and wireshark.exe be moved to the <root dev 
dir>\wireshark-gtk<1/2> directories from the <root dev dir> instead of 
being copied then? Why leave them in the <root dev dir>?

/ Peter