Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make CMake reuse Makefile.common?

[Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:11:02PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/04/15 11:55, Graham Bloice wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4 March 2015 at 16:44, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto:jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On 03/04/15 04:07, Michal Labedzki wrote:
> >>
> >>             On 03/03/15 11:50, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> >>
> >>                 And also if i remember the target is only have CMake for
> >>                 build system
> >>                 (and remove autofoo...)
> >>
> >>
> >>         I hope there will be only CMake in near future (imply remove
> >>         autotools). As I know cmake aka build systems working for all
> >>         platforms. What about remove building part of autotools, use
> >>         cmake for
> >>         that and use autotools for other tasks?
> >>
> >>
> >>     It may work but last I checked it didn't work too well: there's a
> >>     bunch of stuff that works when running from an autotools build
> >>     directory that doesn't from a cmake directory.  And it doesn't
> >>     appear many people have been working on that.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe that should be enumerated somewhere.  I've only built (off
> >> Windows) on Ubuntu using CMake and it worked for me.  On Windows there
> >> are a few bits left to finish off, but I think the nmake usage is coming
> >> to an end.
> >
> >
> > It generally works it's just missing features.  A bunch are documented in
> > README.cmake but not all.  For example I think Evan found that the test
> > suite--at least the Lua portion--don't work in cmake builds; I fixed that in
> > autotools (starting with https://code.wireshark.org/review/3348) but I don't
> > think anyone has touched the cmake part (I gave up even thinking about cmake
> > a while ago).
> 
> Yes, the last time I checked the lua test suite on an out-of-tree
> cmake build failed because it couldn't find the right init.lua file.

This likely happened because of the build dir is not correctly used in
cmake builds. See https://code.wireshark.org/review/7453
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl