Hello Olivier,
> Do you think you could make use of the Makefile.common definitions so
> we only need to edit one file in case something changes?
I tried, but it can't be easily done; e.g. Makefile.common and
epan/Makefile.common both contains BUILT_SOURCES etc. Seems
the makefiles must be executed in their respective directories and
cannot include each other.
> I'm also thinking at creating more than one makefile, so it will be easier to
> edit changes. One requirement would then be that the plugin dissectors
> provide also a Makefile.MingW.
You mean a 'epan/Makefile.MingW'? I can't see why since the power of
GNU make makes it easy for "small" projects like Ethereal to have a
single makefile. (btw. I tried the same for a big project like the Firefox browser,
but failed due to too many external dependencies).
I hesitate to adapt to a mediocre program like MS' nmake. I wish it could
be the other way around. Use GNU make to build the MSVC version.
E.g. instead of listing all the dissector files manually, I simply used
DISSECTOR_SRC = $(shell ls packet*.c)
> Doing so will be much more acceptable for inclusion in the current
> distribution, as it requires no extra work (that was the reason why we
> created the Makefile.common files).
I don't demand you including Makefile.MingW in the distro. But I wouldn't
mind. I mainly created it for my own use (since I don't particulariry like
automake/configure that much).
--gv
