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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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Guy Harris 2021-11-01 13:38:36 -07:00
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@ -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().