Re: libpcap for windows

[Phoebe K <kphoebe88 () gmail com>]

Thanks Guy! I actually did try the win -pcap first. I  tried building SILK
with the option --with-libpcap=XXX giving the location of the libwpcap.a
library(which I got from the developer's pack) and it still complained that
it couldn't find lwpcap.

So not sure what else I can try. That's when I thought I should try libpcap
directly.

Phoebe


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Phoebe K <kphoebe88 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use SILK/YAF and it needs libpcap. I downloaded wireshark
> > and hence lwpcap, but silk is still complaining that it cannot find
> libpcap.
> > How do I build libpcap for windows (Cygwin)?
>
> You can't; it's not supported.  Libpcap expects the OS to provide a packet
> capture mechanism for it to use, and Windows doesn't provide one.
>
> libpcap-for-Windows is WinPcap; it includes drivers to provide a packet
> capture mechanism.
>
> CERT only seems to provide SiLK in source-code form:
>
>         http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/download.html
>
> They mention Cygwin here:
>
>         http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/index.html
>
> It presumably uses WinPcap on Cygwin; to build a program that uses
> WinPcap, you need the WinPcap developer's pack:
>
>         http://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm
>
> in addition to the WinPcap binaries.
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