Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make CMake reuse Makefile.common?

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

Yes, the last time I checked the lua test suite on an out-of-tree
cmake build failed because it couldn't find the right init.lua file.