On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Stephen Fisher wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:23:51AM +0200, Helge Kruse wrote:
>>> @all: What is the sense behind the HAVE_CONFIG_H if I need it anyway?
>> config.h is only used on Unix, so only Unix builds need to include it. Things like HAVE_LIBPCAP are defined in there according to the configure script's results, which various Wireshark source files can use to include/exclude code specific to certain optional features such as libpcap or adns/libsmi/c-ares/etc.
>
> Hmmm, Windows uses it too: the used version is built from the source-controlled "config.h.win32" file.
I think he's asking about HAVE_CONFIG_H, not config.h, the question being "if Wireshark won't build correctly without the stuff config.h defines, what's the point in checking whether we have config.h with "#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H"?" I.e., why not just do
#include "config.h"
rather than
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif
