Ulf Lamping wrote:
> The automated buildbot does the following to ensure all files are in the
> source tarball for a *unix* build (see the Ubuntu buildbot at
> http://buildbot.wireshark.org/trunk/):
> - "dist" creates a tarball (the same way as the one that you'll get at
> the release) - using all the autofoo magic
> - "distcheck" then tries to build a Wireshark instance from this tarball
>
> This way the buildbot makes sure that the tarball get's all the files
> needed to do a Unix build - but not a Windows build :-(
>
> The problem here is, that we currently don't have any build procedure to
> build the windows source tarball (as there's simply no such thing as a
> Windows source tarball existing - and also not desirable).
It's also possible for distcheck to miss things on the Unix side:
http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200608/msg00243.html
It might be possible to configure the Windows builder to download
tarballs and try to build them. I'll take a look.