Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Not possible to run wireshark from root dev dir on Windows

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Peter Johansson wrote:
> I have recently noticed that wireshark.exe and wireshark-gtk2.exe no 
> longer can be run from the root development directory on Windows because 
> a set of dlls files no longer gets copied there by the build target 
> install-deps ("nmake -f makefile.nmake install-deps"). For example 
> wiretap-0.3.dll, libwireshark.dll, adns_dll.dll, libgnutls-14.dll, 
> libgcrypt-11.dll and libgpg-error-0.dll.
> Instead all works fine if run from the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk1\ 
> and the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk2\ directories.
>
> Is this behaviour by feature or design?
>
>   
That's by design.

See: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200609/msg00425.html

Regards ULFL