On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> The reason that the windows build still uses other tools and nmake is that
> no-one has found the time and motivation to create, and most importantly
> maintain, a VS solution for Wireshark.
Note that "maintain" includes "allow developers using UN*X not to have to
somehow manually update a VS project file when they add a new source file to
Wireshark". At least with VS nmake we can have both the auto* Makefile.am
files and the VS nmake files both include Makefile.common, so adding a new
source file can, in 99% of the cases, be done by a UN*X developer using the
auto* files or a Windows developer using the VS nmake files and it'll work for
the other group.
CMake is multi-platform and even *that* isn't always updated when people add
files to the project. If we can arrange that CMake handle *all* the weird
platform checks that the auto* stuff does, or are willing to abandon the
platform versions/variants it can't handle, and are willing to require that all
developers install CMake (and we either have binary packages available for all
platforms that matter, or can have CMake generate release source tarballs that
don't require CMake, or are willing to require that *end users* install CMake
if they can't install from a binary package), we might be able to switch to
CMake, in which case it might be able to generate VC project files (at least as
I understand what the CMake site says).
CMake *might* work better with Eclipse than auto*:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Eclipse_UNIX_Tutorial
(It might say "UNIX" in the URL, but the page says "These instructions are
written with OS X /Linux in mind but should be applicable to Windows Operating
Systems.")
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