Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] USE_THREADS on Win32

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,
just a simple question: how are threads used by ethereal
(on UNIX)? So what is the consequence in using --enable-threads?

Best regards
Michael

On Jul 5, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> > Gisle Vanem wrote:
> >
> > > "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > main.c:
> > > > The definition USE_THREADS won't be set anywhere, so your changes 
> > > > won't take any effect ?!?
> > > > Has this to be added to the config.h.win32 file?
> > >
> > > Yes, or to config.nmake.
> >
> > How is it done for UNIX builds? I would imagine, that it's done using 
> > the config.h created by configure?
> > In that case, we might want to do it the same way (defining 
> > USE_THREADS in config.h.win32). As the detection of the GTK
> > version is done in the code (main.c) this should do in all cases.
>
> Well, I've tried defining USE_THREADS in config.h.win32.
>
> This required to add gthread to the libs, so added to the config.nmake 
> the gthread like:
>
> GLIB_LIBS=$(GLIB_DIR)\lib\glib-$(GLIB_VERSION).lib \
>    $(GLIB_DIR)\lib\gmodule-$(GLIB_VERSION).lib \
>    $(GLIB_DIR)\lib\gobject-$(GLIB_VERSION).lib \
>    $(GLIB_DIR)\lib\gthread-$(GLIB_VERSION).lib
>
> After that, starting Ethereal required g_convert_init from 
> libglib-2.0-0.dll, which isn't defined anywhere.
>
>
> So, I didn't succeeded to use threads with GTK2.4 and MSVC this time 
> :-(
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
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