Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make CMake reuse Makefile.common?
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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:04:19 -0500
On 03/04/15 11:55, Graham Bloice wrote:

On 4 March 2015 at 16:44, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    On 03/04/15 04:07, Michal Labedzki wrote:

            On 03/03/15 11:50, Alexis La Goutte wrote:

                And also if i remember the target is only have CMake for
                build system
                (and remove autofoo...)


        I hope there will be only CMake in near future (imply remove
        autotools). As I know cmake aka build systems working for all
        platforms. What about remove building part of autotools, use
        cmake for
        that and use autotools for other tasks?


    It may work but last I checked it didn't work too well: there's a
    bunch of stuff that works when running from an autotools build
    directory that doesn't from a cmake directory.  And it doesn't
    appear many people have been working on that.


Maybe that should be enumerated somewhere.  I've only built (off
Windows) on Ubuntu using CMake and it worked for me.  On Windows there
are a few bits left to finish off, but I think the nmake usage is coming
to an end.
It generally works it's just missing features. A bunch are documented in README.cmake but not all. For example I think Evan found that the test suite--at least the Lua portion--don't work in cmake builds; I fixed that in autotools (starting with https://code.wireshark.org/review/3348) but I don't think anyone has touched the cmake part (I gave up even thinking about cmake a while ago).