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.


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