Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

From: Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:46:39 +0200


Den 31 aug 2015 10:24 skrev "Pascal Quantin" <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> Le 31 août 2015 10:09 AM, "Anders Broman" <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> > From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexis La Goutte
> > Sent: den 31 augusti 2015 09:43
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> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue
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> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 8/12/2015 12:21 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
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> > 2. I had to disable building with geoip because:
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> > #error:  Macro definition of snprintf conflicts with Stan
> > dard Library function declaration (compiling source file packet-ip.c)
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> > A little digging finds that the Windows Wireshark version of the GeoIP library(1.5.2) is a bit old; The current version (on GitHub [1]) is 1.6.6 and has had various fixes made since 1.5.2.
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> > I also note that the 1.6.6 GeoIP.h no longer has the macro definition for snprintf so the MSVC2015 GeoIP compile problem obviously won't occur using the latest version.
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> > I don't really know to create the GeoIP libraries (and couldn't easily do a 64 bit version anyway) so I'll leave this as a ToDo for others (Gerald ?).
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> > (Obviously there's no urgency for this).
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> > [1] https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c
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> > May be directly move to GeoIP 2 ?
> > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10658
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> > I think the code is available from here:
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> > https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
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> Hi all,
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> I propose to do it in 2 steps as changing the library is more work than upgrading the current one:
> - first recompile version 1.6.6 and see if it solves the build issue with MSVC2015 (I'm gonna cross compile it as I have the environment). I will send an email once it is ready for testing (as I did for Lua).
> - then eventually change the library (and keep backward compatibility with the older one?).
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> Cheers,
> Pascal.
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Sounds good to me.
Regards
Anders

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