Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 45113: /trunk/ /trunk/: config.nmake

["Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was thinking more along the lines of having a vcredist.zip file in each http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark-$WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM-libs/tags/$DOWNLOAD_TAG/packages/ that contained all the supported MSVC_VARIANT's, so that when downloaded and extracted, you'd get something like the following (assuming win64):

C:\wireshark-win64-libs\vcredist\
            MSVC2010\
                     vcredist_x64.exe
            MSVC2010EE\
                     vcredist_x64.exe
            MSVC2012\
                     vcredist_x64.exe
            MSVC2012EE\
                     vcredist_x64.exe
etc.

Similarly for win32.  This way it wouldn't matter if the Microsoft links changed because we'd already have them anyway.  We wouldn't necessarily have to include all of the vcredist's in a single zip file either; we could download each separately or group them by 32-bit vs. 64-bit, or whatever else might make the most sense.

And while I'm at it ... does anyone have any thoughts about changing the default wireshark lib directory structure?  Currently I only compile 64-bit Wireshark on my Windows 7 64-bit PC, but my 32-bit XP PC's days are numbered and at some point soon I'll be building 32-bit and 64-bit custom installers on the Windows 7 64-bit PC.  So, rather than have a growing number of libs directories at C:\ such as:

C:\wireshark-libs-1.0\
C:\wireshark-win32-libs\
C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.2\
C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.4\
C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.6\
C:\wireshark-win32-libs-1.8\
C:\wireshark-win64-libs\
C:\wireshark-win64-libs-1.4\
C:\wireshark-win64-libs-1.6\
C:\wireshark-win64-libs-1.8\

... and on and on going forward, what about a structure such as follows:

C:\wireshark-libs\
        1.0\
                win32\
                win64\
        1.2\
                win32\
                win64\
        1.4\
                win32\
                win64\
        1.6\
                win32\
                win64\
        1.8\
                win32\
                win64\
        latest\
                win32\
                win64\
        vcredist\
                MSVC2010\
                        vcredist_x64.exe
                MSVC2010EE\
                        vcredist_x64.exe
                MSVC2012\
                        vcredist_x64.exe
                MSVC2012EE\
                        vcredist_x64.exe

Or alternatively:
C:\wireshark-libs\
        win32\
                1.0\
                1.2\
                ...
                latest\
        win64\
                1.0\
                1.2\
                ...
                latest\

A structure like one of these means only a single wireshark-libs directory in C:\, which I would prefer.

While I know I can change the location of the libs for myself, I was just wondering if it might be desirable to change the default directory structure in general. Thoughts?

And we could even include fop-1.0 in there as well, downloaded as fop-1.0.zip to include the fop-hyph.jar and jimi-1.0jar files.  Seems like a better location for it, in my opinion, as it means each working copy of sources doesn't need its own wireshark/docbook/fop-1.0/ directory (by default).

OK, just throwing out some ideas ...
- Chris

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs [gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:37 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 45113: /trunk/ /trunk/: config.nmake

I don't think there's anything that would prohibit that. The various
redistributable download pages don't ask you to agree to anything before
downloading and people are doing this directly from the WiX installer:

http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/vcredist-x86-exe-Package-DownloadUrl-td7579927.html

My only concern is that the links might change at some point but
otherwise this would make things a bit more convenient.


On 9/24/12 6:23 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
> ... or is this the, "we're not allowed to distribute them" problem?
> - Chris
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:18 PM
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 45113: /trunk/ /trunk/:    config.nmake
>
> Should the supported vcredist_*.exe's be downloaded during the setup step?
> - Chris
>
> ________________________________________
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> Subject: [Wireshark-commits] rev 45113: /trunk/ /trunk/: config.nmake
>
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=45113
>
> User: gerald
> Date: 2012/09/24 03:57 PM
>
> Log:
>  Look in $(WIRESHARK_LIB_DIR)\vcredist_$(MSVC_VARIANT) for
>  the MSVC redistributable package, then look in the top-level
>  $(WIRESHARK_LIB_DIR). This lets us more easily use multiple compilers
>  with the same library directory.
>
> Directory: /trunk/
>   Changes    Path            Action
>   +13 -3     config.nmake    Modified
>
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