Re: warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont

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

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 16:36, Maynard, Christopher via Wireshark-dev <
wireshark-dev () wireshark org> wrote:

> I’m not sure if these warnings have been seen by anyone yet, but I just
> noticed them after updating sources today and compiling.
>
> From: *https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L534*
> <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L534>
> libmaxminddb.lib(maxminddb.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain
> '__except' (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with
> /guard:ehcont; generating conservative metadata
> [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\mmdbresolve.vcxproj]
> *535* <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730>libmaxminddb.lib(data-pool.c.obj)
> : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception
> Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative
> metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\mmdbresolve.vcxproj]
>
> From: *https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L3000*
> <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730#L3000>
> minizip.lib(unzip.c.obj) : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except'
> (Structured Exception Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont;
> generating conservative metadata
> [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
> *3001* <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730>minizip.lib(zip.c.obj)
> : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception
> Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative
> metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
> *3002* <https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/jobs/1395187730>qtmain.lib(qtmain_win.obj)
> : warning LNK4291: module may contain '__except' (Structured Exception
> Handling) but was not compiled with /guard:ehcont; generating conservative
> metadata [C:\builds\wireshark\wireshark\build\wireshark.vcxproj]
>
> - Chris

I'd be interested to know if you see link errors on subsequent rebuilds as
noted by Martin M and myself in emails discussions today.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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