Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Building under Windows?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> What is *required* to build Ethereal under windows?

See the "README.win32" file.

> Can it be done with a Win32 version of gcc?

That file says:

	Instructions for Cygwin
	-----------------------
	No one has ever compiled Ethereal entirely with Cygwin.  It should not
	be difficult, however.  This spot is reserved for your instructions on
	how to compile Ethereal with Cygwin.

I don't know whether it's been compiled with the Cygwin version of GCC,
but using only the native Windows libraries.

> Are there any free compilers that can do it?

I don't know.

> If it requires a commercial one, is MSVC 5.0 new enough?

I seem to remember Richard Sharpe indicating, at one point, that it was.
I use MSVC 6.0 on the NT 4.0 partition on my home machine.

> What about Borland C++ builder?

I don't know whether that works, or whether anybody's tried it.