[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Biot Olivier wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> As the shared library build works on cygwin since the library now only
> contains *known* symbols (self-contained library), I suggest we give the
> MSVC++ libethereal.dll build another try.
>
> I would however not yet try to build libethereal.dll as such for official
> releases, as it is definitely not multithread-safe and MS explicitly demands
> shared libraries to be MT-safe (I think it has to do with the data portion
> controlled by the DLL in case multiple applications use the DLL at the same
> time -- pls correct me if I am wrong).
>
> In order to make libethereal.dll MT-safe, we need to provide at a minimum a
> means for controlling the dissection state information on a per-process base
> (per-thread if you want).

AFAIK all dlls are "multi process safe" on MSWin. Do we really need MT-safe?

> Regards,
>
> Olivier
>
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