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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Andrew Hood wrote:
> The simplest solution would probably be to not download zlib123 but
> instead to download the source zlib-1.2.3 and compile it. That way the
> same MSVCR* gets used throughout.
>   
I've checked it in a change that MSVC 6 runs like before, while every 
other version downloads the source zlib123.zip (from the "wireshark lib" 
subversion repository) and compiles it.

Maybe we can drop the "old" MSVC 6 dll path - would make the nmake files 
a bit easier (to understand) ...
> Maybe Express behaves differently to Studio. I got a lot of link errors
> which seem to be related to Windows' GDI. Google turned up similar link
> errors in some other projects and these were the extra libs they
> required. I guess I could relink with various cominations of these to
> find the minimal set required.
>   
Both Express (+PSDK) and Studio (without extra PSDK) are compiling well 
on my machines now, without a change of the libs.

Could you check this with the latest SVN version (as it should run out 
of the box).

If it fails, could you give your exact machine configuration:
- MSVC compiler version (and variant and ...)
- Platform SDK version used (if used)
- your personal config.nmake changes
- the error output

So I might get a clue what's different on your machine ...

Regards, ULFL