Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Build native Win32 Ethereal with cygwin!

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Olivier Biot wrote:

> And another *very* important reason to do so is the increased
> performance. When running cygwin Ethereal, it runs slowly because of
> the slow cygwin interface (Win32 path conversion to *NIX patchs and
> the opposite way takes ages).
>  
Do you think the path conversions are really that sad?
Can't imagine that, as it's usually not done often and almost only at 
startup.

I could imagine that the performance issue comes from various places 
(especially the X emulation), however didn't make tests myself on this.


BTW: Beside the reasons mentioned, I like the idea of being able to 
build a free program with free tools :-) and with acceptable performance.
In the long term we might getting problems with the MSVC compiler, as 
the VC6 compiler comes to it's ages and the .net compiler
seems to be somewhat incompatible with GPL'ed programs (as mentioned 
earlier on the list).

So using gcc / automake on all available platforms and suggesting 
eclipse as the IDE would make sense to me for the long term.

Regards, ULFL