Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Current issues with MSVC build process and libethereal

[Lars Roland <Lars.Roland@xxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Compiling source files which are not in the working directory creates 
more problems than expected:

Nmake cannot evaluate dependency rules correctly, because sources and 
object code files are in different directories.
The preprocessor will look in the working directory for included header 
files at first. So all dissector sources include wrongly config.h from epan.

There are probably more undiscovered errors.

I suggest to revert the recent changes for the nmake makefiles.
We should still be able to work on the shared libethereal for *nix 
platforms, Creating a dll on Win32 is even more problematic and should 
be done after moving the dissectors in a seperate folder.

I already tried to build a libethereal.dll.
Two major issues arose:
How do we export functions to libethereal.dll? (There are at least two 
functions we have to export: report_open_failure() and 
report_read_failure() )
What do we do with "timestamp_type"? Do we export this global variable 
to libethereal.dll or do we move it into libethereal.dll and make it 
accessible via functions?

Best regards,

Lars