Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem linking plugin in Win32

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> > Did you tried to add them to the libethereal.def file?
>
>
> We're not linking plugins with a libethereal.lib file, so plugins 
> don't import routines from libethereal.dll - we still need the plugin 
> API table, so adding them to the libethereal.def will not, as far as I 
> know, be enough.
>
> Is it time for us to *require* that libethereal be built as a DLL on 
> Windows, to link plugins with libethereal on Windows, and to get rid 
> of the plugin API table?

As the plugin API table is really a big hack that I don't understand 
till today (ok, I didn't tried to), I would would vote for removing it.

I don't see any real disadvantages to use the DLL, but maybe there are some?

Regards, ULFL