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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:24:14 -0800
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:57:09PM +0100, Gisle Vanem wrote:
>  "Lars Roland" <Lars.Roland@xxxxxxx> said:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> No, but the much more lightweight MingW will do nicely.

At one point, you'd proposed a scheme in which the main program could
export symbols to plugins using the standard scheme for exporting
symbols from DLLs.

Have you ever gotten that to work?  If so, perhaps we should just do
that, and get rid of the whole plugin API transfer vector entirely.