Tobias Wärre wrote: > Hi > I'm not fully immersed of the details of the build process, but I think (well > know, but I'm a > bit modest... ;) ) it has to do with dependencies. > The C:\wireshark-1.0.0\ folder and all subfolders except > for those created during a > build (to see the effect do a 'nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean' > and then a 'nmake -f Makefile.nmake all' > and watch what folders that are created). In the end of the build, all > necessary files are > copied (using xcopy in windows) into /wireshark-gtk-1 and /wireshark-gtk2 and > in those folders all dependencies are on the right places.
> The C:\wireshark-1.0.0\ is only a placeholder of the development files until > the build is ready. > > Was I fussy or (or perhaps even wrong) somewhere? If so, please say that. > You are quite correct: the wireshark-gt? directories are especially created and populated to contain all the dependencies (dlls and etc) required to run wireshark, tshark & etc on Windows in the development environment. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org https://wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev