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Re: Compiling snort on Win32
From: "Chris Reid" <Chris.Reid () CodeCraftConsultants com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 02:42:02 -0600
Michael, My finger must have slipped (twice). I should have said that the project would be for 1.8.7. But it should work just as well for any previous 1.8.x codebases from the last month or two. The warnings being suppressed are described in the snort.h file (updated soon to a CVS repository near you). But, here is the official explanation: * Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 has inconsistent declarations for the following * standard functions. This causes compile-time warnings about "formal parameter * 1 different from declaration". The pragma suppresses this warning. * * double atof(const char *); <-- stdlib.h * double atof( char *); <-- math.h * * int remove(const char *); <-- stdio.h * int remove( char *); <-- io.h * * int rename(const char *, const char *); <-- stdio.h * int rename( char *, char *); <-- io.h * * int _unlink(const char *); <-- stdio.h * int _unlink( char *); <-- io.h * * int system(const char *); <-- stdlib.h * int system( char *); <-- process.h * * int _wsystem(const wchar_t *); <-- stdlib.h * int _wsystem( wchar_t *); <-- process.h * * The strange part is that if you look at math.h / io.h / process.h, the * functions are declared properly. It's as if the "const" has been defined * to be an empty string (although I couldn't find this). Only when you look * at the preprocessor output do you see that the "const" has been removed. * Anyhow, the 4028 pragma gets rid of nearly 500 compile-time warnings. So, these warnings can be deemed non-critical at this point. The resulting executable code will be the same with the new project. Although, a few more predefined configurations have been added to the Visual Studio project, if you feel so inclined to provide them to the public for download. ;) Chris Reid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Steele" <michaels () silicondefense com> To: "'Chris Reid'" <chris.reid () codecraftconsultants com>; <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:50 PM Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Compiling snort on Win32
Chris, I'm assuming that the warnings mean nothing and fixing it for a clean executable is going to produce the same snort.exe? Will the code below work with 1.8.7? The log file inclusion has been a must for a multitude of updates. Michael Steele | System Engineer / Support Technician mailto:michaels () silicondefense com Silicon Defense: IDS solutions - http://www.silicondefense.com Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org -----Original Message----- From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Chris Reid Sent: May 31, 2002 2:18 PM To: Ian Macdonald; snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Compiling snort on Win32 Ian, I talked with Chris Green about this yesterday. I had already planned on providing him with a new Visual Studio project for Snort 1.8.6 tonight (Friday). Currently, there should be hundreds of warnings, but only one link error. The link error should indicate that one of the "log" source files is missing. As part of my Visual Studio project update tonight, I was also going to give Chris some diff's to snort.h (already found in the 1.9 source) which reduce the warnings down to about 24. If you just can't wait ;) here is how you can compile a clean 1.8.6 executable: * Open snort.h * Locate the include of <math.h>, and change it to: #ifdef WIN32 #pragma warning( disable : 4028 ) #endif /* WIN32 */ #include <math.h> #ifdef WIN32 #pragma warning( default : 4028 ) #endif /* WIN32 */ * Further down in snort.h, locate: /* This is basically everything needed to make snort work under WIN32. -- Mike Davis */ #ifdef WIN32 #include <winsock.h> #include <windows.h> #include <io.h> #include <sys/timeb.h> #include <process.h> #include <direct.h> #include <getopt.h> typedef unsigned char u_int8_t; typedef unsigned short u_int16_t; typedef unsigned int u_int32_t; typedef int pid_t; and change it to: /* This is basically everything needed to make snort work under WIN32. -- Mike Davis */ #ifdef WIN32 #include <winsock.h> #include <windows.h> #pragma warning( disable : 4028 ) #include <io.h> #include <process.h> #pragma warning( default : 4028 ) #include <sys/timeb.h> #include <direct.h> #include <getopt.h> typedef unsigned char u_int8_t; typedef unsigned short u_int16_t; typedef unsigned int u_int32_t; typedef int pid_t; * Compile. This should still generate the link error. Look at the error to figure out which "log" source file is missing. Add this file to your Visual Studio project, and compile again. Chris Reid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macdonald" <secsnort () dirk demon co uk> To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:56 PM Subject: [Snort-users] Compiling snort on Win32I have a couple changes I would like to make to the snort.exe binary,so Ithought I would download the 1.8.6 and see if I can compile it myself. Can anyone point me to a document describing how to compile onwindows? Ifound the snort.dsp and snort.dsw files in win32/win32-prj an startedupVisual Studio 6, but I get alot of errors when I try to do a build What are the prerequisites I need before being able to compile snorton w32?Thanks Ian
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- RE: Compiling snort on Win32 Michael Steele (May 31)
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