| Elliott Hughes | 9a98642 | 2017-12-19 14:49:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | In many operating systems tcpdump is available as a native package or port, |
| 2 | which simplifies installation of updates and long-term maintenance. However, |
| 3 | the native packages are sometimes a few versions behind and to try a more |
| 4 | recent snapshot it will take to compile tcpdump from the source code. |
| Elliott Hughes | e2e3bd1 | 2017-05-15 10:59:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Elliott Hughes | 9a98642 | 2017-12-19 14:49:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | tcpdump compiles and works on at least the following platforms: |
| Elliott Hughes | e2e3bd1 | 2017-05-15 10:59:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| Elliott Hughes | 9a98642 | 2017-12-19 14:49:10 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | * AIX |
| 9 | * FreeBSD |
| 10 | * HP-UX 11i |
| 11 | * Linux (any) with glibc (usually just works) |
| 12 | * Linux (any) with musl libc (sometimes fails to compile, please report any bugs) |
| 13 | * Mac OS X / macOS |
| 14 | * NetBSD |
| 15 | * OpenWrt |
| 16 | * Solaris |