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Re: README.Win32 and INSTALL.md for libpcap
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:13:05 -0400
Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote: >> The README.Win32 must be wrong now that we've done all this work... > It's *way* out of date; we're using CMake now, they'd probably want to > download the WinPcap SDK rather than trying to do a WinPcap > build-from-source, they'll need a newer Visual Studio to get the C99 > features we're now allowing (e.g., variadic macros), it might also be > possible to use Npcap, etc.. >> I feel that perhaps deleting it as I don't know what to put in it. > It might be nice to offer something, but I do Windows builds weirdly, > on a Cygwin command line - I don't know whether most people would want > an all-GUI solution (CMake has a GUI, although I've never used it), or > something from a Windows (cmd.exe or PowerShell) command line, but, not > having done either, I can't really contribute that. I prefer to change the file to say that cmake is used, and this file is looking for a windows developer to detail things. >> I also suspect that many of the OS instructions in INSTALL.txt (now INSTALL.md) >> (like about HPUX 9) are obsolete. > The HP-UX 9 code probably hasn't been used in ages - the HP-UX *10* > code probably hasn't been, either. I've done test builds on The > Written Word's machines, but 1) the tests don't involve packet capture, > just compiling and running "make check" for tcpdump and 2) they don't > have HP-UX 10, much less HP-UX 9. > And we can probably stop talking about NeXTSTEP, SINIX, SCO OSes > including UnixWare, and SunOS 4. (We can probably even drop any code > that attempts to support them, unless somebody *really* objects *and* > is willing to make sure they still work....) > While we're at it, we should either commit to supporting the FILES section or remove it. I say remove it. I will clean the INSTALL.md down to: 1) ./configure instructions 2) basic cmake instructions 3) point to doc/* -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr () sandelman ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
Current thread:
- README.Win32 and INSTALL.md for libpcap Michael Richardson (Jun 24)
- Re: README.Win32 and INSTALL.md for libpcap Guy Harris (Jun 24)
- Re: README.Win32 and INSTALL.md for libpcap Michael Richardson (Jun 25)
- Re: README.Win32 and INSTALL.md for libpcap Guy Harris (Jun 24)