Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Win32 build process currently as slow as hell :-(

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi!

As there seems to be a tendency to add dependencies to the Win32 build 
process to get each and everything build automatically, the normal build 
is getting slower and slower.


Currently I'm building the debug-gtk2 target, which I've once added to 
only build the GTK2 version of Wireshark and copy over the corresponding 
files to wireshark-gtk2 - for debugging Wireshark.


When I'm currently doing nmake -f Makefile debug-gtk2, I'm getting the 
hell of things done that I very certainly don't need for normal debugging:

- UPX packaging
- lib download
- WSDG generation
- ...

... and in addition to this, some steps of the above are *repeatedly* done!


This gives me a pretty, pretty bad "code to build ratio" (10s coding, 
10min building) :-(((

Is there really a need to build all that? We should be really careful 
adding dependencies like hell, making the normal developing as slow as 
it currently is.


Regards, ULFL

P.S: As a consequence, I tend to stop develop pcapng for now, as this is 
currently a big waste of time ...