Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Update Windows Build Instructions
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From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:20:13 -0700
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:34:16PM -0500, Ed Beroset wrote:

> Having been around this particular block a couple of times, yes, CMake 
> at times is a battle, but it's also better than the alternative of 
> producing (and maintaining) multiple mutually incompatible and 
> inevitably arbitrarily different build systems in parallel.

The beauty of autoconf/automake on Unix is that it spits out standard 
MakefileS so that normal users don't have to install a special program 
just to build the software.  I haven't tried Wireshark with CMake yet, 
but doesn't every user have to install it to build the software?  Or can 
cmake's output be included in source distributions so only developers 
need it?