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| author | Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net> | 2021-11-01 13:38:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net> | 2021-11-01 13:38:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1cf16845048c6898c95ba853f4579f56920554c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 428b42744ee30e538da2a4265897f2b09e87f617 | |
| parent | 4ff22025e83cfddb4cc1694dc0185133e157c899 (diff) | |
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README.developer: put items about Windows together.
Move the item about MinGW-w64 up after the earlier item about Windows
portability in general.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 90089923dd..1811a89a1c 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -426,10 +426,6 @@ platform-dependent implementations and platform-independent APIs, such as the routines in epan/filesystem.c, allowing the code that calls it to be written portably without #ifdefs. -Wireshark uses Libgcrypt as general-purpose crypto library. To use it from -your dissector, do not include gcrypt.h directly, but use the wrapper file -wsutil/wsgcrypt.h instead. - We support building on Windows using MinGW-w64 (experimental) so be mindful of the difference between an #ifdef on _WIN32 and _MSC_VER. The first tests if the platform is some version of Windows and also applies to MinGW. The @@ -440,6 +436,10 @@ a MinGW toolchain, including MinGW-w64. The same concern applies to CMake code. Depending on the particular situation you may need to use if(WIN32) or if(MSVC) or if(MINGW). +Wireshark uses Libgcrypt as general-purpose crypto library. To use it from +your dissector, do not include gcrypt.h directly, but use the wrapper file +wsutil/wsgcrypt.h instead. + 2. String handling Do not use functions such as strcat() or strcpy(). |