Explain the cmake build system for wireshark $Id$ Notice To find out the current state of the cmake implementation for Wireshark, please take a look at "What needs to be done?" below. Basically this is an experiment and if we find out that it works and we like cmake more than autofoo we might switch one day. Table of contents ================= How to get started with cmake? Why cmake? Why not cmake? What needs to be done? Links regarding cmake How to get started with cmake? ============================== You can find documentation on cmake at: http://www.cmake.org/ cmake is designed to support out of tree builds. So much so, that in tree builds do not work properly in all cases. How to do out of tree build (Unix/Linux): 1) Install cmake. 2) Assuming, you are in the top directory of the wireshark source cd .. 3) mkdir build 4) cd build 5) cmake ../ 6) make (or cmake --build .) 7) (as root) umask 0022 && make install Note 1: in step 5), you may override the defaults for features: cmake -DENABLE_CAP=OFF ../ will disable the capabilities check. Note 2: On OS X, you may want to run cmake like this: cmake -DENABLE_CAP=OFF -G "Unix Makefiles" Note 3: After running cmake, you can always run "make help" to see a list of all possible make targets. Note 4: Cmake honors user umask for creating directories as of now: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9620 To get predictable results please set umask explicitly. How to do out of tree build (Win32/64): [This is advanced alpha and should build all executables except the GTK3 Wireshark for 32-bit.] 1) Follow http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html Steps 1-9 1a) Set WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=c:\wireshark (the parent directory of the library directory). 1b) set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win32 (or win64) 1c) set QT5_BASE_DIR=c:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2010 (or whatever) 1d) In case you want to use Visual Studio, make sure that the paths to python and cygwin are available to GUI applications. 2) Install cmake 2a) Build the zblib library, e.g. cd %WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR%\wireshark-%WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM%-libs\zlib125 cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" . # msbuild will not do because of configuration path cmake --build . 3) mkdir c:\wireshark\build 4) cd c:\wireshark\build 5) cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" path\to\sources (i.e. in case your sources are located at c:\wireshark\trunk, use "..\trunk") 5a) cmake path\to\sources (this will build for the latest Visual Studio version found) 6) nmake /X- VERBOSE=1 (or cmake --build . -- VERBOSE=1 ) 6a) Wireshark.sln (this will run up Visual Studio with the cmake built solution (or use msbuild: cmake --build . -- /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo) 7) In case you want to test the executable(s) inside the build tree: Run setpath.bat whenever it gets updated (there is a message in each cmake run whether it is necessary or not). Why cmake? ========== - Can create project files for some MS and Apple IDEs. - Fast - Easier to understand/learn - Doesn't create any files in the source tree in case of out of tree builds - One build infrastructure even including Windows ... Why not cmake? ============== - Lots of work to do - Everyone who wants to build from source needs cmake - Current state of documentation isn't really better than autofoo documentation, in some respect it's even worse (you need to buy a book to get an explanation as to how cmake really works). ... What works? =========== All the executables now build from clean source on: * 32bit openSUSE 11.3: (gnu)make and gcc * 64bit FedoraXXX * 32bit Ubuntu 9.04 * 32bit Ubuntu 10.04 * 64bit Debian Wheezy What needs to be done? ====================== - Add back platform specific objects. - Fix places in the cmake files marked as todo. - Guides are not installed. - Build source package (using CPack). This is obsolete if we decide to release VCS snapshots instead - Build rpm package (using CPack). - Build dpkg package (using CPack). This is obsolete, we should call CMake from debian/rules instead, using dh (rbalint) - Add back checkAPI target. - Test and add support for other platforms (BSDs, OSX, Solaris, Win32, Win64, ...) - Add support for cmake configurations. - Get plugins loading when running *shark from the build directory. - Automatically figure out if *shark is running from the build directory (making WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY unnecessary like it is with autofoo). - Get cross-compilation working (or ensure it does). It works with autofoo. ... Links regarding cmake ===================== The home page of the cmake project http://www.cmake.org/ The home page of the cmake project documentation http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake About cmake in general and why KDE4 uses it http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/ Introductory/tutorial presentation http://ait.web.psi.ch/services/linux/hpc/hpc_user_cookbook/tools/cmake/docs/Cmake_VM_2007.pdf Introductory article in Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6700/print Useful variables http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables cmake FAQ http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Additional cmake modules http://code.google.com/p/cmake-modules/