On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20 November 2014 08:53, Maarten Bezemer <maarten.bezemer@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 13 November 2014 15:15:26 you wrote:
>> > On Thursday 13 November 2014 13:56:26 Graham Bloice wrote:
>> > > While I'm all for making life easier for devs, if no-one else has
>> > > identified this as a need, i.e. only you find it worthwhile, then we
>> > > will
>> > > end up with stuff not generally used in the repo and then who will be
>> > > maintaining these bits of CMake?
>> >
>> > [1] is an attempt I found to have out of source builds. But it never got
>> > fed
>> > back to Wireshark and consists (eventually) outdated scripts. By
>> > integrating such functionality, keeps the development scripts
>> > up-to-date.
>> >
>> > I am also willing to write a (wiki) document explaining the out of
>> > source
>> > builds (when my patches get accepted) to help out others as well. As the
>> > current information about this subject on the Internet is very minimal.
>> >
>> > The maintenance of my patches is not too hard I think. I mainly use
>> > (cmake)
>> > scripts that are already available. The changes I made are to make them
>> > more
>> > generic, e.g. by getting rid of hard-coded paths. All scripts are
>> > also/already used when Wireshark itself gets build.
>>
>> Is there anything left for me to do or to explain?
>> I would like gain some momentum either direction (approved or abandoned),
>> so I
>> know whether my current (out of source) plug-in implementation can be used
>> at
>> work or not.
>>
>
> I was hoping to get a comment from Joerg Mayer (our resident CMake dev) but
> he's been a bit quiet lately.
May be also with Balint, Debian Package use cmake for build...
>
> I'm really struggling for time at the moment to test and comment on it
> myself.
And now Petri Dish can build on Windows with cmake for see if there is
some regression ;-)
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
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