Re: [lwip-users] Newbie trying to use lwip on Fedora

[Kieran Mansley]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:37 -0600, David Vos wrote:
> I am new to lwip.  I really like the concept and it looks interesting.
> 
> I am trying to write a pure userland TCP transparent proxy.  In fact,
> the packets won't even be arriving off the wire, and I cannot use the
> host OS's stack.  I will have a program feeding the packets in and out
> of lwip.
> 
> I am running in userland on a Fedora Core 5 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp system.
> 
> I downloaded lwip-1.2, and I was a little surprised that there is no
> Makefile or anything.  I wrote a small C program that includes the
> "lwip/tcp.h" file.  I get errors about being unable to find
> "arch/cc.h" or "lwipopts.h".
> 
> How should I approach getting lwip to run in userland fedora?  How
> much time would you guess it will take?

You will also need the contrib module that contains a number of ports
(including things like Makefiles) for different operating systems.  One
of the examples there is a unix library target that should be directly
linkable against your application, and allow you to access the lwIP
APIs.

Kieran