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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Is it possible to build Ethereal with the MSVC++ Toolkit 2003

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:17:21 +1000
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Biot Olivier wrote:
| Hi list,
|
| I was happily surprised to know that Redmond decided to distribute the
| command-line "VC++ Toolkit 2003" and that its EULA does not seem to be as
| restrictive as the fully-fledged VC++ 2003.
|
| This raises two questions to me:
|
| 1. Are we allowed to build and "ship" Ethereal built with the VC++ Toolkit
| 2003, meaning that we are not infringing the EULA?
|
| 2. How do we technically proceed as I understood from previous
postings that
| there were incompatibilities between libraries compiled with different
| versions of MSVC++?

IIRC the blurb said there were only static libraries included in the
free version. Hence there should be no library issues, but will create
big executables.

The incompatible library warnings usually refer to the VC7 version of
MSVCRT.DLL, which M$ say you should distribute with your application in
its install directory, and NOT put in the system. That seems to be the
one that triggers all the license problems.

- --
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
~                -- Dr. Who
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