| JP Abgrall | 511eca3 | 2014-02-12 13:46:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Under Win32, libpcap is integrated in the WinPcap packet capture system. |
| 2 | WinPcap provides a framework that allows libpcap to capture the packets |
| 3 | under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 |
| 4 | and Windows XP. |
| 5 | WinPcap binaries and source code can be found at http://winpcap.polito.it: |
| 6 | they include also a developer's pack with all the necessary to compile |
| 7 | libpcap-based applications under Windows. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | How to compile libpcap with Visual Studio |
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| 11 | |
| 12 | In order to compile libpcap you will need: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - version 6 (or higher) of Microsoft Visual Studio |
| 15 | - The November 2001 (or later) edition of Microsoft Platform |
| 16 | Software Development Kit (SDK), that contains some necessary includes |
| 17 | for IPv6 support. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/sdk |
| 18 | - the latest WinPcap sources from http://winpcap.polito.it/install |
| 19 | |
| 20 | The WinPcap source code already contains a recent (usually the latest |
| 21 | stable) version of libpcap. If you need to compile a different one, |
| 22 | simply download it from www.tcpdump.org and copy the sources in the |
| 23 | winpcap\wpcap\libpcap folder of the WinPcap distribution. If you want to |
| 24 | compile a libpcap source retrieved from the tcpdump.org Git, you will |
| 25 | have to create the scanner and the grammar by hand (with lex and yacc) |
| 26 | or with the cygnus makefile, since The Visual Studio project is not able |
| 27 | to build them. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Open the project file winpcap\wpcap\prj\wpcap.dsw with Visual Studio and |
| 30 | build wpcap.dll. wpcap.lib, the library file to link with the applications, |
| 31 | will be generated in winpcap\wpcap\lib\. wpcap.dll will be generated in |
| 32 | winpcap\wpcap\prj\release or winpcap\wpcap\prj\debug depending on the type |
| 33 | of binary that is being created. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | How to compile libpcap with Cygnus |
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| 37 | |
| 38 | To build wpcap.dll, cd to the directory WPCAP/PRJ of the WinPcap source code |
| 39 | distribution and type "make". libwpcap.a, the library file to link with the |
| 40 | applications, will be generated in winpcap\wpcap\lib\. wpcap.dll will be |
| 41 | generated in winpcap\wpcap\prj. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | Remember, you CANNOT use the MSVC-generated .lib files with gcc, use |
| 44 | libwpcap.a instead. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | "make install" installs wpcap.dll in the Windows system folder. |