[Winpcap-users] Various fixups

[Gianluca Varenni]

I've just committed all the patches to the winpcap and libpcap CVS 
repositories. They will be out in the next WinPcap release.

Thanks for the patches!

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "deadchicken" <deadchicken at gmail.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Various fixups


> Compiles and works wonderfully!
>
> ---
> "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
>
> Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I played a bit with the patch you sent, with the following outcome:
>> - the modified files seem to compile smoothly both with GCC and Visual C 
>> 6 (used normally to compile the WinPcap DLLs)
>> - due to licensing issues (or better, lack of), I cannot use the 
>> gai_strerror.c file you sent, which is probably taken out of the 
>> Microsoft include file WS2tcpip.h. I took an implementation of that 
>> function from the freeBSD source code (we do the same for other functions 
>> in wpcap\libpcap\Win32\Src) and modified some bits to make it compile.
>> - regarding the weird patch for struct bpf_stat, it's a problem related 
>> to a duplicated definition of that structure in multiple include files, 
>> for which a quite ugly #ifdef was added years ago in packet32.h (i.e. 
>> it's not a problem with MingW per se). In any case, an easy and safe 
>> patch to the problem is to add a forward declaration of struct bpf_stat 
>> inside packet32.h (since the function declarations in this file only use 
>> a pointer to this struct). Any other patch for this issue involved adding 
>> some #ifdef's here and there in various include files (and this could 
>> cause side effects that I'd prefer to avoid).
>> - in the GNU makefile for packet.dll, it's not necessary to define 
>> HAVE_REMOTE (since the remote stuff is implemented in wpcap.dll)
>>
>> All these things have been tested with Cygwin, which should be quite 
>> similar to MingW. In any case, attached you can find an updated patch 
>> file against WinPcap 3.2a1. The new gai_strerror.c file is included in 
>> the patch file. Can you please test it with MingW and tell me if it 
>> works?
>>
>> To apply the patch, go into the "winpcap" folder, then type "patch -p1 < 
>> [path_to_the_diff_file]".
>>
>> Have a nice day
>> GV
>>
>> PS: thanks for the hard work!!
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