Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 generation toolchain (perl, python, bash, ...) and conf

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:18:24 -0000
> You can build for "native WinXX" (without cygwin linkage)
> with GCC, but you then need to use one of the GCC compiler
> flags (I think it's -mno-cygwin), and maybe you'll have to
> use libraries that are not in a.out format but in .obj or
> .dll format) or use mingw instead.
>

IMHO it would be a retrograde step to make the default Win32 build use
Cygwin.  While I use cygwin a lot, native tools (python, perl, etc) are much
faster, as is MSVC.

As long as there is a clear "HOWTO" describing the build process on win32,
and availability of the required libraries and DLL's from the ethereal site
then I'm not particularly convinced of the need for ethereal to support a
cygwin distribution.

To that end should we think about creating a win32 "dev" install that does
all the work ?  I could help out with this.

Regards,

Graham Bloice