Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' but was not compiled with /guard:

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 16:36, Maynard, Christopher via Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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]

535libmaxminddb.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]

3001minizip.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]

3002qtmain.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]

 

- Chris

 

 

I'd be interested to know if you see link errors on subsequent rebuilds as noted by Martin M and myself in emails discussions today.

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Graham Bloice