Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Win32: remove binary zlib.dll completely and compile it for all MSVC variants?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> After I repeatedly stumbled over not having the right form of the 
> zlib.dll on my computer (MSVC6: binary dll, all other MSVC: compile it 
> yourself from sources) and the setup target only downloads one of them, 
> it makes me think to drop the binary dll stuff completely and only use 
> the sources to compile it for all MSVC variants.
> 
> The only disadvantage I see is that MSVC 6 will have to compile itself, 
> which needs a little time. But as it's only 6 files or so, it's not that 
> much of a problem really and Gerald already thinks about switching to 
> 2005EE anyway.
> 
> Changing this will ease up the Makefile.nmake files and remove problems 
> if you often switch between these compiler variants - which at least I 
> do from time to time.
> 
> Any objections against this?
> 

I know I'm asking you to do yet more work, but I think adns needs the same
treatment.

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Regards,

Graham Bloice