Hi List!
The current "install-deps" target is used to create a debug environment
and will copy things like DLL's into the source dir so you can start a
Wireshark there for debugging.
In my private nmake file, I'm doing a slightly different approach: I'm
creating a whole new dir "DEBUG_GTK1" / "DEBUG_GTK2" and copy all the
required stuff into it, including the DLL's, EXE's and so on, so the
files in this dir are looking a bit like "Program Files/Wireshark" after
it was installed using the installer.
This has some advantages:
- we get the sometimes requested "distribution in a zip file" for free,
as we can simply zip this dir and we're done
- the clean-deps target is much easier (and won't be spreaded all over
the other nmake files, e.g. in plugins)
- it keeps the source dirs "cleaner" as it doesn't copy a lot of files
into them
and - of course - a disadvantage:
- the install-deps is a bit more complex
If no one complains against this, I could implement it reusing a lot of
stuff from my private nmake file ...
Regards, ULFL
