Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling Wireshark for Win32
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:13:25 -0700
On 8/11/11 1:45 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 
> That being, said, for the *NIX builds "warnings as errors" (-WX in the
> Windows case) are normally turned off for the releases.
> 
> Gerald et al, is there any reason that's not done for the Windows
> builds?  (-WX is set in trunk-1.2, trunk-1.4, trunk-1.6.)  We're now
> seeing that there are differences in the warnings coming out of the
> various Windows compilers...

We disable warnings-as-errors for Autotools and for CMake in the
releases; -WX should definitely be disabled for Visual C++. I've checked
in a change to do so in r38552 and updated the release checklist.