Re: CMake support out of source plugin compilation

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 20 November 2014 08:53, Maarten Bezemer <maarten.bezemer () gmail com>
wrote:

> On Thursday 13 November 2014 15:15:26 you wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 November 2014 13:56:26 Graham Bloice wrote:
> > > While I'm all for making life easier for devs, if no-one else has
> > > identified this as a need, i.e. only you find it worthwhile, then we
> will
> > > end up with stuff not generally used in the repo and then who will be
> > > maintaining these bits of CMake?
> >
> > [1] is an attempt I found to have out of source builds. But it never got
> fed
> > back to Wireshark and consists (eventually) outdated scripts. By
> > integrating such functionality, keeps the development scripts up-to-date.
> >
> > I am also willing to write a (wiki) document explaining the out of source
> > builds (when my patches get accepted) to help out others as well. As the
> > current information about this subject on the Internet is very minimal.
> >
> > The maintenance of my patches is not too hard I think. I mainly use
> (cmake)
> > scripts that are already available. The changes I made are to make them
> more
> > generic, e.g. by getting rid of hard-coded paths. All scripts are
> > also/already used when Wireshark itself gets build.
>
> Is there anything left for me to do or to explain?
> I would like gain some momentum either direction (approved or abandoned),
> so I
> know whether my current (out of source) plug-in implementation can be used
> at
> work or not.
I was hoping to get a comment from Joerg Mayer  (our resident CMake dev)
but he's been a bit quiet lately.

I'm really struggling for time at the moment to test and comment on it
myself.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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