Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Update Windows Build Instructions
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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:05:22 -0500
On 01/05/2015 06:51 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:46:48PM +0000, Graham Bloice wrote:

On 5 January 2015 at 23:39, Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx> wrote:



Right, that's the best part of of autoconf: it generates a shell
script called configure that will run on any system without having
autoconf installed.


Including Windows?


And that's the worst part of autoconf - no Windows support.  At least
not without going further into the Cygwin or MinGW world, which gets
even further away from native Windows development than we already are.
Funny, when I want to build my normal vi-like editor on Windows/Cygwin I just extract the tarball, type ./configure, and then "make". Works like a charm. :-)
Admittedly the editor has a LOT less requirements/dependencies than Wireshark...
(I'm also not sure if the author spent any effort on making things work in Cygwin.)