Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem during compilation

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From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:39:11 -0400

Hi Graham,

While I don’t compile with VS2005, obviously many folks still do.  If you ever do have the time, it would probably be beneficial to others if you would post your patches, either here on –dev or through bugzilla.

Thanks.

- Chris

 

 

From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Bloice
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:56 AM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem during compilation

 

On 27/04/2010 05:38, ankur madan wrote:

So,is there any other solution for this problem.due to some reason i have 2 work on VS 2005 only.looking forward for a response.

There are three main issues you will face when trying to compile Wireshark with VS2005:

1)  The makefiles and sources attempt to conditionally compile code based on the compiler version.  IMHO this is wrong and it should be based on the SDK in use.  After all, you can use the latest (Win7) SDK with VS2005.  These are mainly around the area of file dialogs, and IPV6 definitions.

2) Compiler behavioural differences, this leads to odd errors with compilation like the one you ran into

3)  Some 3rd party libraries are linked with c run-times that are later than those supplied with VS2005 (Lua).  This means that the code will compile and link but at runtime an error will be generated.  The solution here is to specify earlier versions of the library (5.1 for Lua) in config.nmake.

I don't know if some of these issues have been solved and I only carry the changes in my local working copy for historical purposes, but they allow me to build a working Wireshark with VS2005 (obviously I don't see any 802.15.4 frames).

I don't have the time to push these changes upstream (particularly the changes to use the SDK version not the compiler as they are extensive), especially as VS2005 is now 2 versions off the latest compilers.  I can attach a patch that includes all my changes if you wish.


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Regards,
 
Graham Bloice
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