On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:57:09PM -0500, Jason House wrote:
> I believe that I am using the wrong source for libpcap... I think that I
> need WinPcap, but the server netgroup-serv.polito.it never responds...
No, that *is* the official source for WinPcap; it just happens to be
unavailable on occasion (and available on other occasions - it was up
yesterday, for example).
> Does anybody know of an alternate location that I can obtain the correct
> file?
One mirror Fulvio Risso mentioned at one point was
http://www.datanerds.net/~mike/netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/
which seems to be up right now.
> (I obtained the file libpcap-0.5.2.tar.gz from some other source,
> but it gives me a number of compilation errors)
You probably obtained it from tcpdump.org, and it gives compilation
errors because it's source code for UNIX, not for Windows - WinPcap is
the Windows port of the standard libpcap (although 2.02 is a port of
libpcap 0.4a6, not of 0.5.2 - the currently-in-beta WinPcap 2.1 is a
port of 0.5.2).
> I also get a lot of "warning C4761: integral size mismatch in argument;
> conversion supplied" messages when I compile the code. Two examples are
> gtk/main.c(508) and epan/resolv.c(225). Is this normal or a sign of
> other troubles?
It's a sign of Microsoft's C compiler being noisy; I think those are all
safe conversions (they're certainly not *illegal* C statements, and
those aren't Windows-specific or MSVC-specific conversions, GCC just
doesn't happen to warn about them when used with just "-Wall").
> I copied time.h to sys\time.h (in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\include\). Before doing that I was getting an error that
> the system could not find "sys/time.h"
That's odd - I don't remember doing that, but I've been able to compile
the software with MSVC 6.0 just fine.
> I've altered config.make to indicate the paths where I decompressed the
> following files: glib-dev-200000805.zip, gtk+-dev-20000722.zip, and
> libpcap-0.5.2.tar.gz. Are there any other files that I will need to
> modify?
You don't want to use the "libpcap-0.5.2.tar.gz" stuff, as it's not
going to compile on Windows, and you need compiled versions of the
libraries. Get WinPcap 2.02 from the mirror I mentioned above.
