| Under Win32, libpcap is integrated in the WinPcap packet capture system. |
| WinPcap provides a framework that allows libpcap to capture the packets |
| under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 |
| and Windows XP. |
| WinPcap binaries and source code can be found at http://winpcap.polito.it: |
| they include also a developer's pack with all the necessary to compile |
| libpcap-based applications under Windows. |
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| How to compile libpcap with Visual Studio |
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| In order to compile libpcap you will need: |
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| - version 6 (or higher) of Microsoft Visual Studio |
| - The November 2001 (or later) edition of Microsoft Platform |
| Software Development Kit (SDK), that contains some necessary includes |
| for IPv6 support. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/sdk |
| - the latest WinPcap sources from http://winpcap.polito.it/install |
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| The WinPcap source code already contains a recent (usually the latest |
| stable) version of libpcap. If you need to compile a different one, |
| simply download it from www.tcpdump.org and copy the sources in the |
| winpcap\wpcap\libpcap folder of the WinPcap distribution. If you want to |
| compile a libpcap source retrieved from the tcpdump.org Git, you will |
| have to create the scanner and the grammar by hand (with lex and yacc) |
| or with the cygnus makefile, since The Visual Studio project is not able |
| to build them. |
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| Open the project file winpcap\wpcap\prj\wpcap.dsw with Visual Studio and |
| build wpcap.dll. wpcap.lib, the library file to link with the applications, |
| will be generated in winpcap\wpcap\lib\. wpcap.dll will be generated in |
| winpcap\wpcap\prj\release or winpcap\wpcap\prj\debug depending on the type |
| of binary that is being created. |
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| How to compile libpcap with Cygnus |
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| To build wpcap.dll, cd to the directory WPCAP/PRJ of the WinPcap source code |
| distribution and type "make". libwpcap.a, the library file to link with the |
| applications, will be generated in winpcap\wpcap\lib\. wpcap.dll will be |
| generated in winpcap\wpcap\prj. |
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| Remember, you CANNOT use the MSVC-generated .lib files with gcc, use |
| libwpcap.a instead. |
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| "make install" installs wpcap.dll in the Windows system folder. |