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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Laurent Rabret wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Maybe your linker errors stems from bad compiler options. Initially I 
> recommended to remove some default libs and to force msvcrxx thanks to 
> /DEFAULTLIB and /NODEFAULTLIB options in LOCAL_LDFLAGS (in 
> the config.nmake file). Actually, it was probably a bad solution and I 
> recommend to remove these options and to set the /MD flag next to /Zi 
> /W3 in LOCAL_CFLAGS . Ulf, this flag avoid modifications in the 
> plugins directory and guarantees lib consistency. I suppose it should 
> work with VS6 also but can not check.
> Hope it will help and if it word, it is certainly a good idea to 
> change the config.nmake file.
Hi Laurent!

Could you provide a patch so we don't confuse each other - and talk 
about different things. I'm not really an expert on this lib issues ;-)

However, I can test it on all mentioned MSVC variants (even VS6), so 
we'll see.

Regards, ULFL

P.S.: In the meantime, I can successfully compile and run Wireshark 
versions generated on every MSVC variant mentioned - so there's actually 
some real progress in this topic ;-)))