Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Anybody know where to download MS VC 6 compiler?

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:23:59 +1000
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 
> Kenneth Haagner <ken.haagner@xxxxxxxxx>, Ethereal user support
> <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 21.07.05 16:43:27:
> 
>> Hi, Anybody know where to download MS VC 6 compiler?
>> 
>> Want to compile sources and have searched high and low for such 
>> compiler (believe that it's no longer supported)
>> 
> 
> 
> Well, you have to buy Microsoft Visual C++ (part of Microsoft Visual
> Studio) or however it's currently called.
> 
> I don't know, if you can still buy Version 6 somewhere, as the
> Version 7 (Visual Studio .net) is the current version. Unfortunately,
> version 7 has some problems while compiling Ethereal and is therefore
> not recommended.

I had no problems *compiling* with Visual Studio .Net Professional.
Unless I recompile all the other stuff required (e.g. GTK) it won't
work. The other stuff uses VC6's dlls and that's a no-no. e.g. files
opened by a VC6 dll are not visible to a VC7 dll.

Of course this might have changed. I have not tried to do it recently.

> See http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development

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