Re: WinDump fails to compile on latest libpcap

[Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com>]

Hi Guy,

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 4:53 AM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem () yahoo no> wrote:
>
> > Yang Luo wrote:
> >
> > > Given that WinDump is kind of "official" example to use libpcap/Npcap
> API,
> > > it's not good that they can't compile.
> >
> > Why do you say that? IMHO, tcpdump/WinDump at:
> >  https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump.git
> >
> > is the "official". Works fine for me on Windows. Have you tried it?
>
> Yes.  The WinDump at
>
>         https://www.winpcap.org/windump/
>
> is based on an old version of tcpdump.
>
> Ultimately, there shouldn't *be* a program named "windump" - it should be
> called "tcpdump" even on Windows, and should be built from the same source
> on Windows as on UN*X.

I was misled by WinDump:)


> I don't know whether the project files in that source tree are up-to-date;
> if not, we should probably update them.  We should also look at CMake files
> that work on both Windows and UN*X, as we're doing with libpcap (the
> libpcap CMake files for libpcap are still a work-in-progress, but I've used
> them on my Windows 7 virtual machine and I think I've used them on macOS as
> well).

I will try to build TCPdump via MSVC project files later.

Thanks!


Cheers,
Yang


> > It's good we've got rid of the mess with "bittypes.h" etc.
>
> Yes.
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