RABRET Laurent RD-MAPS-ISS wrote:
> Of course there's one, I posted a patch about 1.5 years ago for the formerly 
> Ethereal to successfully compiled with Visual > 6. I have always successfully 
> used this patched Ethereal/Wireshark compiled with VS 2003 and have just 
> checked when compiled with Visual C++ 2005 Express --> No problem if we 
> include the .exe/dll.manifest to the distribution.
>   
Thanks for the info.

Could you add the manifest files and - if required - the changes to the 
makefiles? Your patch only includes the gstdio.h related stuff.
> I do not understand why this patch was not applied but it's maybe because I 
> do not know glib (or because the macro does not work on VS6/Unices -> not 
> tested on these environments). 
Probably as none of the core developers could test it, lack of time, ...
> The "spirit" of the patch is very simple: Do not use glib API for file 
> handling whilst glib is compiled with visual studio 6.
> Regards
> Laurent
>
> Caution: if you test, DO NOT FORGET to compile "zlib" to ensure RT lib 
> consistency.
>   
As a first step I'll simply disable zlib for my experiments (zlib is 
optional).

Regards, ULFL
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