Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: Removing plugins/X* from cvs

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:41:31 +0100
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:52:02PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote:
> The generation of those files requires cygwin's gcc. With those files 
> provided you can build ethereal on Win32 without cygwin's gcc. So, do we 
> require MSVC users to have cygwin's gcc installed?

Ah, no, definitely not - although MSVC users are currently unable to
change the plugin api. It's basically not the X* files but the generation
of xyzzy. As this stuff is needed by msvc users but not by gcc users:
Wouldn't it make more sense to solve this problem in msvc?

 Ciao
       Jï¿œrg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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