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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Mac Build Error

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:11:56 -0800
On Jan 18, 2016, at 7:04 AM, David Morsberger <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not exactly sure how the outdated file showed up in the wireshark source (not build) hierarchy. My guess is it was due to a cmake run because of the following.
> 1. mkdir build
> 2. cd build 
> 3. cmake <options> .. to include cmake -G Xcode ..
> 4 No make file in the build directory.

You said "-G Xcode", so there shouldn't *be* makefiles, there should be Xcode project files; when I tried that, with CMake 2.8.12.2, it *did* put Wireshark.xcodeproj in the build directory.

> It appears to put all the generated files in the wireshark source directories.

When I tried it with -G Xcode, CMake didn't put anything in the Wireshark source directories.

> This behavior is counter to the build instructions.

The build instructions aren't intended for Xcode, and don't have any section for Xcode; there are instructions for Unix-like systems and for Windows.