Re: Wireshark 1.6: End support of older Windows Compilers/SDKs ?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 02/02/2011 19:54, Bill Meier wrote:
> Speaking of support [1], for the eventual Wireshark 1.6 release I suggest
> consideration of ending support for older Windows compilers/SDK's.
> (Wireshark 1.4 would continue to support compilers as now).
>
> For Wireshark 1.6:
>
> Support the following ?
>
> !ELSEIF "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2005"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2005EE" || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "DOTNET20"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2008"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2008EE" || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2010"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2010EE"
>
> and not these ?
>
> !IF     "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC6"      || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2002"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "DOTNET10"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "MSVC2003"   || \
>         "$(MSVC_VARIANT)" == "DOTNET11"
>
>
> Comments ?
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> [1] http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201102/msg00005.html
> ___________________________________________________________________________
Possibly taking us off in a tangent, but I think the code detecting the
compiler in use is actually wrong.  IMHO hat is more important is the SDK that
is being used.  Each compiler ships with a version of the SDK, but users can
easily download a newer SDK to use with an older compiler to gain access to
newer OS features in the SDK header files.  Oue current approach of tying
available OS features to the compiler used is IMHO flawed.

If we went with this approach, the config.nmake and all the compile time
conditionals could be cleaned up a lot.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice

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