Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once on window before every release

["Naveen Kumar Kaushik" <naveenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Naveen Kumar Kaushik" <naveenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once on window
before every release


>
> On Sep 9, 2003, at 9:43 PM, Naveen Kumar Kaushik wrote:
>
> > In last release lot of people reported problems in window compile and
> > ethereal could only be compiled after few patches .
> > This is a sort of request to core ethereal development team. Please
> > compile the ethereal once on win32 before any release.
>
> Umm, typically it *is* compiled on Win32 with MSVC++ - that's where the
> Windows binary on the Ethereal site comes from.
You are correct but than next question is why did people face lot of
problems in compiling ethereal-0.9.14 with MSVC++   . If  I remember
correctly  It could only be compiled after few patches to Makefiles.
 > Perhaps it doesn't compile with Cygwin or MinGW, but that's another
> matter.  Compiling it once on Win32 wouldn't be sufficient for that -
> it'd have to be compiled twice or 3 times, once with MSVC++, once with
> Cygwin, and once with MinGW.
true people can contribute if they have pre release tar they can download
and report problems.