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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Laurent Rabret wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for not providing this simple patch before. It is OK with VS 
> 2005 express edition, can you check it is OK with previous releases 
> because I do not have them anymore?
I'll try but that will last a while (on 7 different configurations) ...
>  
> Regarding relationships between VS express edition and PSDK, I 
> successfully compiled Wireshark once I had only done the 3 first steps 
> of the process adaptation. Therefore, I suppose the misconfig problem 
> comes from another place...
>  
> Ulf, don't you think it is also a good idea to provide a project file 
> so that debugging would be *a lot* easier because developpers could 
> use all the IDE debugging tools (breakpoints, step by step debugging 
> etc...). Such project file really helped me! I suppose a simple 
> project file created with Visual 6 could be translated by any other MS 
> IDE.
Yes, I was thinking about something like this as well. I'm doing similar 
for quite a while now on my personal source tree.

I'm using a workspace that contains some projects (so you can easily 
switch between debugging of Wireshark, tshark, dumpcap) with some 
"dummy" entries of files I often edit.

The best solution would be to generate this out of the makefile, but 
that would be much work I guess. However, providing a simple .dsw/.dsp 
combo for debugging sounds like a good start for newbies in a "much 
better than nothing" fashion.

But let's get the compilation done right before doing the next step ...

Regards, ULFL