Got wireshark with wpcap 4.1.3 installed on my win7 (64bit) PC. I downloaded wpcap developer pack 4.1.2 (the top one, it claims to be compatible with 4.1.3). I unzipped it and went to directory "WpdPack\Examples-pcap\UDPdump" and made an exe UDPDump.exe using MinGW Gcc (64bit). However, when I ran it, it crashed. GDB showed that it failed at the call to pcap_findalldevs. Any ideas why? asked 04 May '16, 13:29  pktUser1001 edited 05 May '16, 03:36  grahamb ♦ |
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Somewhat off topic for this site, but works for me using VS2013 Community Edition and converting the old solution and project files. I'm not sure that compilers other than VS and Cygwin gcc are supported. answered 05 May '16, 03:12 grahamb ♦ edited 05 May '16, 03:37 |
I'm not sure Cygwin GCC is supported; unfortunately, Cygwin and MSVC differ on what a
struct timevallooks like, and WinPcap uses MSVC's definition, causing Bad Things to happen if you try to use WinPcap from Cygwin.MinGW might actually be better, as it might not "helpfully" supply UN*X-style definitions of structures that MSVC or various Microsoft SDKs also define in a not-necessarily-compatible fashion. If it does do so, however, it might have the same problem as Cygwin does.
I only mentioned Cygwin gcc as there is a Makefile for that in the WinPcap Devpack. I haven't tested it though.