Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] finishing Cmake (Was: Simpifying exporting DLL symbols)

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2013/2/26 Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 2/26/2013 5:11 PM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > > 2013/2/26 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > ...
> > > >
> > > Thank you! If no one opposes I'll commit the patch on Thursday and
> > > then start converting the remaining libs.
> > It sounds like the change is significant.
> >
> > if so, I suggest we consider if we should wait until after 1.10 is released
> > to make the change.
> It is significant in a way, but I think it would be better to have it in 1.10.
> It is the last change needed for CMake build system to make it good enough to
> generate official Debian packages.
> I got several requests to ship the Qt GUI in Debian and with CMake I
> can generate both
> GTK and Qt GUIs nicely not to mention that CMake builds are faster.
>
> 1.10.0 would be a perfect candidate to release a fully operational
> CMake build system
> for Linux and after 1.10 we could make CMake work on every platform.

Another thing that is missing in CMake is the ability to (re)generate 
the ASN.1 dissectors. Currently you need to use autofoo or Windows to do 
that.

(I tried looking at it once a long time ago but didn't spend the time to 
learn CMake sufficiently...)