Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Windows only builds plugins if ENABLE_LIBETHEREALdefined

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 01:24:41 -0700
Lars Roland wrote:


Anyhow the option ENABLE_LIBETHEREAL shouldn't be removed as there are
people building ethereal without plugins and those might want to have this
choice.

Yes, you can probably build a statically-linked Ethereal on Windows, but 
it wouldn't be able to load plugins.  We might want to see if we can set 
up the Makefile.nmake files so that the plugins aren't built if 
ENABLE_LIBETHEREAL isn't defined.

I'm not sure statically-linked programs on UN*Xes can load code at run 
time, and thus load plugins, either - completely statically-linked 
programs tend not to load the run-time linker.  libtool *might* play 
some games to link the plugins in the Ethereal source tree with the 
binder, but I'm not sure that works with GLib's run-time-linking code.