For time time being you can create an AppVeyor account and push to GitHub. Pushing to any branch except for master will create an Installer in the artifacts tab.
Example:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Lekensteyn/wireshark
Kind regards,
Peter
https://lekensteyn.nl
(pardon my brevity, top-posting and formatting, sent from my phone)
On April 14, 2019 10:10:30 PM GMT+01:00, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Sometimes a developer may have a change to fix a bug, and the user who
>submitted the bug may not be in a position to build Wireshark from
>source to test the fix; see, for example, recent comments on bug 12845:
>
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c55
>
>"The change hasn't been merged yet so there are no automated builds
>that have it included.
>
>You would have to make your own build, applying the change first."
>
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c56
>
>"That's unfortunately beyond my capabilities. Can you or Tomasz send me
>an installer (or just the binary if there are no external dependencies)
>of a version with this patch included to test whether it solves the
>issue? It might still be less work than creating the test extcap
>executable responding with my device lists."
>
>Would it be possible to have an option in Gerrit to request a Petri
>dish build that builds the Windows installer and saves it somewhere
>such as
>
> https://{download site}/download/petri/win32
>
>with either 1) a maximum number to store there, 2) a timeout so that a
>given installer is only there for N days, or 3) an option to remove it,
>so that users not in a position to build from source can test it?
>Perhaps the installers should have names such as
>
> Wireshark-win64-3.1.0-{change number}.exe
>
>to make it clearer which build to get (and with a new build for a given
>change overwriting the previous build).
>
>This wouldn't help for users with 32-bit Windows or with macOS, as we
>don't have 32-bit Windows or macOS Petri dish builders, but, if that
>matters, that could be the next step.
