Re: Having the buildbot build Wireshark 64-bit for Mac OS X (was Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4115] 32-bit Wireshark crashes while opening large trace files)

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>
> > Given that the MacOS buildbot (at least the Intel one) is so fast, would 
> > it make sense to also build a 64-bit version of Wireshark?
>
> As long as we make sure it works on Leopard before we offer it to Leopard users.

Well, yes :-).

I guess I had assumed that most of the developers were using 64-bit, it 
was just a question of what is being built by the buildbot.

> We could, I guess, build dumpcap 32-bit only, and just build Wireshark and TShark 64-bit.
>
> Also, that would require arranging, somehow, to have both 32-bit and
> 64-bit versions of GLib installed, with the different versions of
> Wireshark built against the different versions. You could make the
> *libraries* 2-way fat, but making the *header files* work both in 32-bit
> and 64-bit mode might take a little more work. (Or have separate
> buildbots.) For the OS versions on which we can make both the 32-bit and
> 64-bit versions work, we'd probably want to lipo them together - along
> with the supporting libraries - so that there's one version that would
> work on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors.

Ah, so MacOS doesn't have, say, "/usr/lib/" and "/usr/lib64/" for 32- 
and 64-bit libraries?  Or is this because we're shipping glib, not using 
one from the OS?

But: would the header files have to be different?  Linux and Solaris 
seem get away with one set of header files for both the 32- and 64-bit 
libraries.
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