Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Unresolved extern __HUGE when linking to an ethereal library on Windows XP

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

jscott wrote:

> I have  a version of the ethereal code which compiles to a static 
> library undeer MSVC7.  When I try to link this with an application, I 
> get the error:
>
>  
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> ethereal_d.lib(ftype-double.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external 
> symbol __HUGE
>
>  
>
> Looking at the file ftype-double.c, the only reference to HUGE is in 
> the line:
>
>  
>
>           else if (fv->value.floating == HUGE_VAL) {
>
>               logfunc("\"%s\" causes floating-point overflow.", s);
>
>  
>
> Jim Scott
I don't know about the specific HUGE problem.

But it's known that Ethereal won't compile on MSVC7 for conflicting 
MSVCRT.DLL reasons.

Regards, ULFL