Hi Graham, Oh, this is very actual issue.
My personal "wishlist" consist of two things: 1. Generation of register.c must be completely reworked, cause most times I must wait about 15-20 minutes when recompiling sources; 2. Make CMake default for win-platform building is really good idea. On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:46:52PM -0000, Graham Bloice wrote: > Folks, > > > > This email was triggered by the recent win-setup.sh issue reported, but I?ve > been thinking about the issues for a while. > > > > FWIW over the Xmas break I looked into reworking the windows build to remove > as > many external dependencies (such as Cygwin) as possible. I was using > PowerShell to replace the bash bits. We would still need Python and probably > Perl as they are intrinsic to the build, and some gnuwin32 utilities such as > bison and flex but I thought that the rest could be handled by PowerShell > scripts. Any extra executable (apart from Python and Perl) not normally found > on a Windows machine could be bundled in a zip file similar to the way we > handle the libs required. > > > > Does anyone see any value in this? > > > > I've also wondered about moving on from nmake and converting to MSBuild. This > is only usable from VS2008 or later though. Any thoughts on that? > > > > And there is also CMake, does anyone use that for the windows build? > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Graham Bloice > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Best regards, Andriy 0xBDDBDAE3
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