Re: [lwip-devel] Building using MinGW

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Am 19.12.2019 um 11:17 schrieb Giuseppe Modugno:
> Il 18/12/2019 22:11, goldsimon ha scritto:
> > Am 18. Dezember 2019 21:58:34 MEZ schrieb Gisle Vanem <address@hidden>:
> > > Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > > But I'm not using mingw, so that #else case in pcapif.c is probably
> > > not used by
> > > > anyone right now. Feel free to get it compiling for you in the best
> > > way and
> > > > provide a patch :)
> > > Guy Harris provided a patch in libpcap:
> > > https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/0103d2880a8f6e78fe001fe35f8be958eeda81eb
> > >
> > > I've not tried it.
> > That patch just undefs _MSC_VER seemingly only to break lwIP *and* contains 
> > really childish comments. I wouldn't try it as well :-)
> >
> > But funny that it came so promptly after these mails here...
> >
> > Again, mingw is of no interest to me personally. I'll happily accept patches, 
> > but don't expect any other work from me on that.
>
> As I already wrote, I think the problem seen by Gisle can be solved
> using a specific version of Winpcap. Are you using
> Microsoft/VisualStudio compiler? Which Winpcap version are you using?
>
> It seems Winpcap is an outdated and stopped project. The new project is
> Npcap. Do you have any plan to fix the win32 contrib to Npcap?

Me? No. I'd welcome patches in that area, but my focus is on embedded
devices running lwIP. I run and debug it on Windows and Linux, but on
the Windows systems I use to debug it, I just use winpcap or npcap in
winpcap compatible mode for now. I don't want to afford the time
developing an npcap right now...

But as always: patches are welcome! (especially since I thought the pcap
driver could get portable but doesn't work on Linux/Unix anway)

Regards,
Simon