Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Visual Studio 2013/2015/2017 compatibility and libraries
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From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:43:36 +0200
Hi,

Are there possible issues to be aware of when using the libraries (built
with mingw/msvc2013) with the Wireshark binaries built with VS2017?
When trying it with a friend, it seems to build and run with no issues.

I thought that there can be problems with combining different MSVC
runtime versions in one binary? Looking through the libraries, it seems
that there is a combination of at least MingW (GeoIP?) and MSVC (Lua).
(And apparently VS2015 (14.0) and VS2017 (14.1) are binary compatible.)

Note: I am developing for Linux and know little about the MS ecosystem,
but for testing under Windows, VS2015 or newer is attractive because you
can install a subset of the tools without pulling the full bloat of VS
(using Visual C++ Build Tools).
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl