Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 generation toolchain (perl, python, bash, ...) and config.nmake

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> prosen wrote:
> 
>> 2) There are a number of dependant libraries that go into
>> c:\ethereal-win32-libs. Would it be possible to put them all into a
>> single .zip file that unzipped to c:\ethereal-win32-libs? It took me a
>> while to get all the libraries and get them in the right path.
>>  
>>
> I can imagine this is a serious problem, sometimes for myself. I would
> tend to agree, that a "one size fits all" zip file would be a good
> thing to have available. This might be a maintenance problem, as Gerald
> (the maintainer of the webpage), currently
> can simply copy the files form their origins onto the webpage.
> 
> Gerald, what do you think about that idea? I would love it :-)

It would be easier (and probably less error-prone) on my end to keep
them separate.  Would it make sense to write a script to download and
unpack the files into $ETHEREAL_LIBS automatically?  Along with
downloading files, we could use it to verify that the rest of the build
environment is sane, e.g. that the toolchain is present and in working
order.