Re: CMake support out of source plugin compilation

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

On 20 November 2014 10:51, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Graham Bloice
> <graham.bloice () trihedral com> wrote:
> > 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 back to Wireshark and consists (eventually) outdated scripts.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.
> May be also with Balint, Debian Package use cmake for build...
> > I'm really struggling for time at the moment to test and comment on it
> > myself.
> And now Petri Dish can build on Windows with cmake for see if there is
> some regression ;-)

Does the Ubuntu Petri-dish have a cmake build step?


-- 
Graham Bloice

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