Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] Make Net-SNMP Optional for VC++ Build

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Olivier Biot wrote:

> From: Ulf Lamping
>
> | Well, there are other problems reported: licensing and DLL
> conflicts.
>
> Regarding the licensing issues, this is no longer an issue with the
> MSVC++ Toolkit 2003 but it was with MSVC.NET since distributing a
> GPLed program compiled with MSVC.NET requires Microsoft to open up the
> source code of some libraries like MSVCRT since this C runtime library
> must now be shipped with the binaries (as opposed to earlier versions
> of the MSVC++ compiler).
>  
Sorry, don't get the point, why it's no longer an issue. I don't see any 
difference regarding this point between the MSVC++ Toolkit 2003 and 
MSVC.NET.

> | See Readme.win32 for some details. There are earlier reported
> problems
> | that some DLLs
> | will conflict (e.g. when opening files). Please report, if you can
> | compile a completely working Ethereal :-)
>
> Did you recompile all depending libraries with MSVC++ Toolkit 2003?
>  
No, and I really don't want to!

My personal preference for the long term would be using the cygwin or 
mingw gcc compiler to be able to compile everything and use win32 native 
libraries, without requiring an X server or such.

Regards, ULFL