[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> How is the ethereal release bundle build/preconfigured.

The Ethereal source release tarballs are built with "make dist", which
builds all the ".c" and ".h" files that are generated from other source
files; that's a standard GNU automakeism, and the intent is not to
require people who build a source release to have all the tools that are
used to generate those source files - i.e., the intent is to allow
applications to be built even if you don't have Python or Perl or Flex
or texinfo or whatever tool the particular application requires, you
should only need a C or C++ compiler, a linker, and make.

As such, the resulting source tarball, for Ethereal, shouldn't require
those tools on Windows, either.