Re: tcpdump build doc for Windows

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:23:40 -0800
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> On Jan 3, 2021, at 12:15 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
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> > tcpdump source tree has a short file named "Readme.Win32", which was
> > mostly updated on 8 Aug 2019, and a longer file named
> > "doc/README.Win32.md", which was mostly updated on 5 Feb 2020. These
> > seem to provide somewhat different instructions, perhaps it would be a
> > good time to review that.
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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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> 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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