Thanks Guy! I actually did try the win -pcap first. I tried building SILK with the option --with-libpcap=XXX giving the location of the libwpcap.a library(which I got from the developer's pack) and it still complained that it couldn't find lwpcap.
So not sure what else I can try. That's when I thought I should try libpcap directly. Phoebe On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Phoebe K <kphoeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am trying to use SILK/YAF and it needs libpcap. I downloaded wireshark > > and hence lwpcap, but silk is still complaining that it cannot find > libpcap. > > > > How do I build libpcap for windows (Cygwin)? > > You can't; it's not supported. Libpcap expects the OS to provide a packet > capture mechanism for it to use, and Windows doesn't provide one. > > libpcap-for-Windows is WinPcap; it includes drivers to provide a packet > capture mechanism. > > CERT only seems to provide SiLK in source-code form: > > http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/download.html > > They mention Cygwin here: > > http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/index.html > > It presumably uses WinPcap on Cygwin; to build a program that uses > WinPcap, you need the WinPcap developer's pack: > > http://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm > > in addition to the WinPcap binaries. _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
