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Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38606: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: prefs_dlg.c

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws_at_nospam>
Date: Thu Aug 18 2011 - 20:54:23 GMT
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>

On 08/18/2011 04:46 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:30:40PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
>
>> I'd rather disable building with AIRPCAP. If this code is unmaintained
>> then this would be more appropriate.
>
> That code (should be) maintained like the rest of our regular GTK code,
> except that it just happens to only be built on Windows since the
> AirPcap hardware only comes with Windows drivers. So our recent change
> to build all of Wireshark with GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED worked on Unix,
> but not on Windows. It is unusual for our GTK code to not be compiled
> on all platforms, which is why building with GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
> seemed ok to do. It makes it hard to troubleshoot AirPcap build
> problems without a Windows box; can we compile AirPcap code on all
> platforms and just disable the option to enable the AirPcap toolbar if
> AirPcap support isn't present?

AirPcap was built by default in cmake up until pretty recently (r37991).
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