winpcap?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:56 +0100, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Gilboa Davara schreef op di 25-01-2011 om 11:30 [+0200]:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I started testing the new cross compiler framework on a two of my Fedora
> > 14 / x86_64 workstations.
> > Two questions:
> > 
> > 1. Any idea when wpcap will be build for mingw64? Can I somehow help?
> > 
> > 2. Would it be possible to move pcap back into the normal include? It's
> > currently sitting in include/wpcap making it impossible to build
> > applications requiring wpcap without manually
> > adding /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/wpcap to the gcc
> > command line.
> > Ideally, cross platform code should simply include pcap/pcap.h.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The package mingw32-pcap hasn't been ported yet to the new cross
> compiler framework. I only ported the most important packages and
> published a porting guide [1] to get things started. The porting guide
> isn't entirely up to date anymore, but I'll try to update it later
> tonight. Right now I'm preparing a new set of packages which uses the
> latest GCC 4.6 snapshot and contains various other package updates.

OK. Thanks.

> It would be great if people are willing to help out with porting
> packages. I can give people commit rights if necessary.

For now, I can commit to drive-by-patching, as I'm over-booked and my
own packages need attention before F15 hits :)

> Your second question can better be directed to the package maintainer in
> question (bugzilla?). The new i686-w64-mingw32 version uses the same
> file locations as the current fedora mingw32-wpcap package so there
> shouldn't be any differences between the two packages (other than the
> 'i686-pc' vs 'i686-w64' prefix). The only changes I applied in the
> package are [2] and [3].

Done.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672743

- Gilboa