I am porting tshark to a different OS.Can someone tell me which files/folders can be removed from the source code ? I am aware that GTK isnt required;but it would be great if i could do away with all the unnecessary files/folders right at the beginning.
Thanks in advance.
Can someone tell me which files/folders can be removed from the source code ?
ui/gtk and, if you have it, ui/qt. Do not remove anything else under ui; at least some of that code is shared between TShark and the {GTK+,Qt} versions of Wireshark, and the code in ui/cli is the tap code for TShark.
help is Wireshark-specific, so you can probably remove that.
image is necessary if you're building for Windows (it arguably shouldn't contain both images for the GUI and .rc.in files for the Windows resource compiler, but maybe that makes referring to icons in image more complicated).
You could perhaps also remove doc and docbook if you don't plan to build any documentation.
You could perhaps remove test if you're not going to run tests, and packaging and debian if this OS isn't Windows or some flavor of UN*X for which Wireshark provides packaging mechanisms.
I don't know whether any of the autoconf or CMake stuff will break if you remove them, however. Unless you're running low on disk space, I'd leave all the directories and files in the source tree there, and just not bother porting the files that you don't need.