Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 34339: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: capture_dlg.c

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Sake Blok wrote:

> Ah... thank you for pointing me to capture-wpcap.c, I was not aware of the intermediate layer to WinPcap.

Yes - we load WinPcap at run time; that dates back to before we bundled it with Wireshark, so we could ship a single 
binary that worked, without capture support, if you didn't have WinPcap installed and that worked, with capture 
support, if you did.  capture-wpcap.c is a bunch of wrappers that call through pointers fetched from the 
run-time-loaded WinPcap.

Note, BTW, that older versions of libpcap have neither pcap_compile_nopcap() nor pcap_open_dead().  I can dig up the 
full history (I have the impression that some versions of NetBSD have a pcap_compile_nopcap() with an extra argument, 
for example) at some point.
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