Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: ASN1.DLL linked against GTK2 forces crash. was: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New pre-release for Win32 u

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Roland said:
> So do we have to link the asn1 plugin with GTK?

We don't do so on UN*X, so presumably we don't need to do so on Windows.

See the other Makefile.nmake files in subdirectories of "plugins" - they
just use GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS.

>> Yes, glib is used extensively, for managing lists, trees, arrays and
>> printing error messages. This can only be removed by having private
>> implementations of these routines...
>
> Of course, I don't want to remove glib dependency. And there is probably
> no problem with it.

...and other plugins directly call GLib routines as well, so it's
certainly possible to link plugins with GLib.