Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Not possible to run wireshark from root dev dir on Windows

From: "Anders Broman \(AL/EAB\)" <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:12 +0200

 
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Peter Johansson wrote:
>   
>> I have recently noticed that wireshark.exe and wireshark-gtk2.exe no 
>> longer can be run from the root development directory on Windows because 
>> a set of dlls files no longer gets copied there by the build target 
>> install-deps ("nmake -f makefile.nmake install-deps"). For example 
>> wiretap-0.3.dll, libwireshark.dll, adns_dll.dll, libgnutls-14.dll, 
>> libgcrypt-11.dll and libgpg-error-0.dll.
>> Instead all works fine if run from the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk1\ 
>> and the <root dev dir>\wireshark-gtk2\ directories.
>>
>> Is this behaviour by feature or design?
>>
>>   
>>     
> That's by design.
>
> See: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200609/msg00425.html
> I see. Should perhaps the files capinfos.exe, dumpcap.exe, editcap.exe, 
> mergecap.exe, randpkt.exe, rdps.exe, text2pcap.exe, tshark.exe, 
> wireshark-gtk2.exe and wireshark.exe be moved to the <root dev 
> dir>\wireshark-gtk<1/2> directories from the <root dev dir> instead of 
> being copied then? Why leave them in the <root dev dir>?
>
> / Peter

As well shouldn't the distclean target also remove these dir's?

/Anders
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