Re: [lwip-devel] Building using MinGW

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Am 10.01.2020 um 23:23 schrieb address@hidden:
> 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?

Oh, and I'm no using mingw at all. All I ever did was accepting patches
and maybe installing mingw in a VM and testing it compiles. I'm using
VisualStudio or cygwin, but not mingw...

Regards,
Simon

> > It seems Winpcap is an outdated and stopped project.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