[Winpcap-users] pcap_next_ex() Error (Visual Studio 6)

Isara Anantavrasilp isara.a at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 14:06:16 GMT 2005


Yeah, I just got the same problem, so I changed the declaration: "u_char 
*pkt_data;" to "const u_char *pkt_data;"

It works just fine. However, I dont know if it is the correct way.

-- Isara

On 7/28/05, Eric Hansen <nightskywriter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Everytime I compile my program, I always end up with this error:
> " error C2664: 'pcap_next_ex' : cannot convert parameter 3 from 'unsigned 
> char ** ' to 'const unsigned char ** ' "
>  My code is exact to the example in the documentation (first I'm just 
> trying to get it to work). Is there a fix for this error, or should I just 
> skip using pcap_next_ex()?
> 
> If I don't use this function, it compiles fine, without error.
> 
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