Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] (1) building Wireshark in build.wireshark fails, (2) how to
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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:23:21 -0700
On Apr 15, 2021, at 2:03 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wireshark is a complicated project to build.  You can follow the tested way, as shown in the Developers Guide, which is essentially what our Continuous Integration (CI) systems use and most other developers, or you can forge your own path on less travelled routes strewn with rocks, rusty nails and broken glass that you mostly have to deal with on your own.
> 
> Unless you have some inescapable need to do things in a different way, it's easier and more productive to follow the herd.

Building in a subdirectory with a name other than "build" isn't exactly a "[route] strewn with rocks, rusty nails and broken glass".  *That* should Just Work (at least if the name is all ASCII printable characters and contains no spaces); if it doesn't, that's a sign that the build process isn't robust enough.

Building in the source directory *itself* is a bit more painful, but that doesn't appear to be what we're talking about here; it sounds as if we're talking about

	mkdir build.wireshark
	cd build.wireshark
	cmake ..
	make