Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Support for building under Visual Studio 2k3

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From: Mike Perry <mikepery@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:15:48 -0600
Thus spake Gerald Combs (gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx):

> We might be able to distribute MSVCR7x.DLL with Ethereal, but we'd have
> to rebuild a lot of other libraries, as you point out below:
> 
> > Another problem is that the MSVC++ 2003 tooklit only contains *static*
> > libraries, so yuo could potentially have serious issues about "I thought
> > that chunk of memory was allocated in *my* module, but it doesn't seem
> > to be true". You'll have to rebuild all modules Ethereal relies upon
> > today (Gtk, GLib and their dependencies for a start - maybe some other
> > people already tried this in the Gtk/Glib/GNOME community).

Really? I thought I specifically remembered seeing msvcr71.dll and not
a .lib? In which case so long as ethereal and the libs shared the same
common toolkit dll, it should be fine, no?

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
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