Ethereal-dev: MinGW instructions and Makefile (was Re: [Ethereal-dev] Missing p_report_failure

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:50:07 +0200
If no-one objects, I'd like to add Gisle's files to the Ethereal
distribution (the README.mingw can be added to the existing
README.win32).

Regards,

Olivier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gisle Vanem

| Olivier Biot said:
|
| > Are you able to compile a native Win32 build on MinGW?
|
| Yes, I did my own monolitic makefile based on an old
| Makefile.nmake:
| http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/misc/ethereal-mingw.zip
|
| > A non-native build on CygWin however succeeds without problems
| > (./configure --enable-gtk2 is all it takes on my computers).
However
| > compiling and running Ethereal this way takes much longer.
|
| A MingW compiled tethereal takes ~5 sec to start. I assume that's
| because of all the plugins. windump starts instantly, so I use that
| most of the time.