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

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Bloice wrote:
> 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.

And so on and so forth....
Better make a policy change and implement that. Is 2005EE the way to go? 
 Then lets do that.

Thanx,
Jaap