[Winpcap-users] pcap_fopen_offline not exported?

[Guy Harris]

On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Okraszewski, Marcin wrote:

> I wanted to use pcap_fopen_offline which is mentioned in  
> documentation as well as available in pcap.h. Unfortunately this  
> function is not exported by both 4.0.2 and 4.1 beta 4. Is it on  
> purpose or some oversight?

Probably an oversight.  The .def files weren't updated when the  
libpcap base of WinPcap was updated to a version that includes  
pcap_fopen_offline(); the release notes for libpcap release that first  
included them might not have mentioned that routine.

(So what exactly *are* the benefits of requiring a .def file when you  
build a dynamically-linked library?  No UN*X that I know of requires  
that the exported functions be explicitly declared when you build a  
dynamically-linked shared library....)