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diff --git a/doc/README.build-system b/doc/README.build-system deleted file mode 100644 index c322aef7ad..0000000000 --- a/doc/README.build-system +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Wireshark can be built using either CMake or autotools. - -CMake is supported on all platforms and required for building on Windows and -macOS. - -Autotools is supported on UNIX and UNIX-like systems (other than macOS). Generally -we prefer to require a portable make rather than writing portable makefiles[1]. -That means GNU Make. See also [2] for all the pitfalls involved in writing portable -makefiles. However requiring very recent GNU Make versions is discouraged -out of ease-of-use concerns. Currently Wireshark should build with any -reasonably recent GNU Make version (released say in the last ten years). - -You are encouraged to report any autotools portability problems in the Wireshark -bug tracker[3] but please be advised that vanilla POSIX make is generally not -sufficiently powerful (or convenient) to build a large software project like -Wireshark so GNU Make is the target implementation. In particular it is an -explicit goal to support VPATH builds. - -[1]http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/rules-of-makefiles/ -[2]https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/html_node/Portable-Make.html#Portable-Make -[3]https://bugs.wireshark.org |