Re: Update Windows Build Instructions

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

On 01/05/2015 06:51 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:46:48PM +0000, Graham Bloice wrote:
> > On 5 January 2015 at 23:39, Stephen Fisher <sfisher () sdf org> wrote:
>
> > > Right, that's the best part of of autoconf: it generates a shell
> > > script called configure that will run on any system without having
> > > autoconf installed.
> >
> > Including Windows?
>
> And that's the worst part of autoconf - no Windows support.  At least
> not without going further into the Cygwin or MinGW world, which gets
> even further away from native Windows development than we already are.

Funny, when I want to build my normal vi-like editor on Windows/Cygwin I 
just extract the tarball, type ./configure, and then "make".  Works like 
a charm. :-)

Admittedly the editor has a LOT less requirements/dependencies than 
Wireshark...

(I'm also not sure if the author spent any effort on making things work 
in Cygwin.)

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