Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Get shared libpcap

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:37:14 -0700
> If you have a binary distribution of Ethereal, it may have been built
> with a shared "libpcap" library.  Unfortunately, to build from LBL's
> source a shared "libpcap" library, you'd have to tweak the Makefile by
> hand, as their Makefile only generates a static library.

...however, there might be a binary package for your platform that
includes a pre-built shared library.