[Winpcap-users] Npcap 0.04, based on original WinPcap 4.1.3, call for test

[Pascal Quantin]

2015-09-10 17:44 GMT+02:00 食肉大灰兔V5 <hsluoyz at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> The first reason I think is that the original WinPcap uses the NSIS
> installer, as Npcap tries to keep as much as possible with WinPcap, Npcap
> also uses NSIS. Moreover, Nmap also uses NSIS. As for why don't use MSI, I
> think this is because open-source projects (like WinPcap, Npcap, etc) tend
> to not use commercial software (like MSI). There should be some reasons
> about this.
>

Nowadays there is an open source project named WiX allowing you to create
MSI. But it requires you to create a brand new installer from scratch, and
it seems to be more complex to use (at least that's my first feeling but
people are reluctant to learn new things ;) ).

Cheers,
Pascal.


>
> Cheers,
> Yang
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Petr Lázňovský <lazna at volny.cz> wrote:
>
>> Maybe dubm question, but why not create MSI package, de-facto standard in
>> installations for windows?
>>
>> L.
>>
>> > Presumably the issue comes from the NSIS EnvVarUpdate macro used by
>> Npcap installer when having a long %PATH% variable, as explained here:
>> > http://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1046/
>> > and
>> >
>> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Environmental_Variables:_append%2C_prepend%2C_and_remove_entries
>>
>> > Looks like the method used to update it should be changed...
>>
>> > Pascal.
>>
>>
>>
>> > 2015-09-10 10:18 GMT+02:00 食肉大灰兔V5 <hsluoyz at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>>
>> > Like the installer said: "Npcap detected you have installed WinPcap, in
>> order to Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode, you must uninstall
>> WinPcap first.". So I would suggest you uninstall WinPcap first before
>> trying Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode.
>>
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Yang
>>
>>
>> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Petr Lázňovský <lazna at volny.cz> wrote:
>>
>> > This option is inactive, see screenshoot.
>> >
>> >  L.
>> >
>>
>> >  So you should ALWAYS has "Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible
>> Mode" option checked when installing Npcap (which is the default option).
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