On 9 October 2013 11:21, Bálint Réczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> 2013/10/9 Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu>: > > > > On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Bálint Réczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> > wrote: > > > >> How about dropping the automake based and nmake based makefile systems > and > >> replacing both with CMake? > > > > So do you propose that people who are building from source only because > they don't have binary packages available for their platforms should be > required to install not only make and a C compiler but also CMake? > Building Wireshark already needs way more tools than just make and a C > compiler. > IMO with shipping CMake only we could ship something we can reliably > maintain finally. > I also can't name any platform we would like to support but where > CMake is not available easily (like apt-get/yum/etc. install cmake). > > Although there are binary packages of Wireshark available for Windows, building is a different story. CMake is available for Windows, but the CMake build of Wireshark is still at an early alpha and a fair bit more needs to be done yet. Also the build environment setup still runs as part of the nmake build so that's another blocker. Graham
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