Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Microsoft Visual C Version 6 support isa bitoutdated ...

["RABRET Laurent RD-MAPS-ISS" <laurent.rabret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course there's one, I posted a patch about 1.5 years ago for the formerly Ethereal to successfully compiled with Visual > 6. I have always successfully used this patched Ethereal/Wireshark compiled with VS 2003 and have just checked when compiled with Visual C++ 2005 Express --> No problem if we include the .exe/dll.manifest to the distribution.

I do not understand why this patch was not applied but it's maybe because I do not know glib (or because the macro does not work on VS6/Unices -> not tested on these environments). The "spirit" of the patch is very simple: Do not use glib API for file handling whilst glib is compiled with visual studio 6.
Regards
Laurent

Caution: if you test, DO NOT FORGET to compile "zlib" to ensure RT lib consistency.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Ulf Lamping
Envoyé : mercredi 20 décembre 2006 01:51
À : Developer support list for Wireshark
Objet : Re: [Wireshark-dev] Microsoft Visual C Version 6 support isa bitoutdated ...

Gerald Combs wrote:
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>   
>> The biggest hurdle seems to be the different msvcrt.dll (C runtime 
>> library) versions for the libs we use, as Gerald already mentioned - I'm 
>> still thinking about the possibilities to solve this.
>>     
>
> If we need to we can split the packages subdirectory in
> wireshark-win32-libs into packages/msvcrt and packages/msvcr71.
>   
Sounds like an approach to it.

I would like to avoid compiling libs "on our own" where possible - 
especially compiling GTK/GLib on Win32 "from scratch" doesn't sound like 
a task I would really love to work on ;-)

However, if there's no other way ...

Regards, ULFL
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