[Winpcap-users] error while building winpcap

[Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Gianluca Varenni
<gianluca.varenni at cacetech.com> wrote:
> The sources of WinPcap 4.0.2 do not compile that smoothly with VS2005/2008.
> In case you want to compile WinPcap with VS2005/2008, I suggest you to try
> the newest build available here:
>
> http://www.winpcap.org/install/x64.htm
>
> Modifying the sources of WinPcap 4.0.2 to make it compile under VS2005/2008
> should not be too difficult, mainly a matter of tweaking some #define and
> #include directives here and there, but using that source package should be
> much more straightforward.
>
> Out of curiosity, which kind of modification were you trying to apply on the
> winpcap sources?
>
The reason is that I have a WiFi chip that I can config its driver to
pass packets in promiscuous mode. So I need the WinPcap driver to know
that and be able to pass that to wireshark. I guess sth similar to
what AirPcap does.
So my change only needs to rebuild the wpcap.dll. Now when I compile
wpcap project, I run to an error which cannot find packet.lib or
packet.dll.  Since I don't want to rebuild packet.lib/.dll, can I just
copy an existing one and use it to build wpcap.dll?
In fact I'm not sure I really understand how WinPcap understand the
driver's capability and then let Wireshark know it supports
promiscuous mode. Are there some document describing the mechanism?

Many thanks,
Joshua


> Have a nice day
> GV
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao" <swzhao at gmail.com>
> To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:08 PM
> Subject: [Winpcap-users] error while building winpcap
>
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm thinking to make a small change in winpcap so that I can test my
>> idea with wireshark. So I downloaded winpcap-4.0.2 source code and
>> tried to build it at first.
>>
>> With both VS2008ee and VS2005ee, I met the following error message and
>> I'm confused. Here studio.h is given by VS itself. How come it shows
>> this error? Is there some configuration problem or what else?
>>
>> 1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\stdio.h(358)
>> : error C3163: '_vsnprintf': attributes inconsistent with previous
>> declaration
>> 1>        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 9.0\VC\include\stdio.h(350) : see declaration of '_vsnprintf'
>>
>> I really appreciate your help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joshua
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