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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' but was not c

From: "Maynard, Christopher" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 15:51:39 +0000
> From: Pascal Quantin <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 11:42 AM
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maynard, Christopher <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> 2 juil. 2021 17:36:21 Maynard, Christopher via Wireshark-dev <mailto:wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I’m not sure if these warnings have been seen by anyone yet, but I just noticed them after updating sources today and compiling.
>>
>> From: _https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L534_
>> libmaxminddb.lib(maxminddb.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\mmdbresolve.vcxproj]
>> _535[https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730]_libmaxminddb.lib(data-pool.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\mmdbresolve.vcxproj]
>>
>> From: _https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L3000_
>> minizip.lib(unzip.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
>> _3001[https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730]_minizip.lib(zip.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
>> _3002[https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730]_qtmain.lib(qtmain_win.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
>
> See https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/3329#note_616965519
>
> Best regards,
> Pascal.
>

OK, thanks.  I missed that in the sea of emails on the topic.
- Chris

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