Re: tcpdump build doc for Windows

[Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
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> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 00:02:14 +0000
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> On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:23:40 -0800
> Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote:
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> > They're both reasonably up-to-date (they both mention Npcap and the
> > use of CMake), but the latter is more detailed.
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> > I'll check whether the first document says anything that's not
> > mentioned in the second, and try to merge that into the second one.
> > Then we can probably get rid of the first one.
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> Thank you.
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> > The top level README.md should probably point to doc/README.Win32.md
> > (or README.Windows.md, given that 1) Windows can also be 64-bit and
> > 2) 16-bit Windows is pretty much dead, so people are unlikely to get
> > confused and say "OK, how do I build this 16-bit?", the answer to
> > which is "we don't even support that on UN*X...".
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> I never thought about it, now that you pointed it out the bit width
> indeed looks out of place.
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> -- 
>     Denis Ovsienko
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