Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Support for building under Visual Studio 2k3

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Mike Perry wrote:

> I was wondering if it might be possible to provide versions of the
> support libraries (the ones provided at
> http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal-win32-libs/tags/2005-01-17/packages/)
> that are compiled with the VC Toolkit 2003 and linked against it's
> MSVCR71.dll so that it would be possible to compile ethereal using
> Visual Studio .NET without having to fight these MSVCRT
> incompatibility issues?
>
> The VC Toolkit EULA does not restrict your ability to distribute
> binary versions of anything you compile, so you should be spared from
> the spurious "NO GPL" clause of the Visual Studio .NET EULA if you
> use the toolkit.
>
> The VC Toolkit can be found at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/eula.aspx
>
>  
Well, the libraries you've mentioned are not compiled by the Ethereal 
project.

For infos where all the libs are coming from, see the file 
doc/README.win32 in the sources (or here 
http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/ethereal/trunk/README.win32) or the 
"Ethereal Developer's Guide" which you can find at: 
http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development

So unfortunately, there are a lot more people involved in this topic.

If you can persuade all of them to provide the libs on both ways (6.x 
and 7.x versions), I would like to bring this to life as I like the 
idea, but I fear not everyone will do so or don't spend the time 
required for it :-(

Regards, ULFL