Colin,
Try the attached Build-Mingw.txt
good luck
Jac

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J Franco
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:16
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Subject: [Ntop] Problems making NTop for Windows - Can Anyone Help?


Hi

I'm trying to make ntop to use with Windows and I'm failing and lost. 
Please help if you can. I'm attempting to work in accordance with the 
guidelines, i.e.: using MinGW and following the steps outlined in 
BUILD-MinGW.txt

I've collected and installed all the prerequisites although in several 
cases I've had to use a new release of some of the packages and 
products. The exact releases Burton used do not seem to be available any 
more.

Building zlib worked fine but things get weird from there on. Building 
libpng is impossible as described  since there is no Makefile.mingw. 
However, makefile.gcc appears to work fine with pngtest succeeding.

Continuing to build gd I encounter another problem:  there is no libgd.a 
anywhere among the installed prerequisites. I got creative and copied 
libgdi32.a as libgd.a but the error persists and I cannot see where/how 
to change the paths in the makefile to correctly find this creative but 
possible incorrect libgd.a

While pondering this problem I decided to look a step ahead and try 
building gdchart. This fails unable to find libgdchart.a

I've reviewed all the FAQ's I can find, tried alternative snapshots of 
ntop and finally have run out of ideas with which to progress. Maybe the 
BUILD-MinGW.txt notes are out of date or the ntop distribution is 
incomplete. Maybe something else is missing. Whatever the problem is I'm 
lost. Please help if you can.

Thanks

Colin

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Description how to build ntop on Win2k using
the MinGW toolchain (MinGW allows you to build native win32 binaries
linked against the Microsoft runtime and not the cygwin runtime).


Building Ntop
-------------
This was last tested against the 2002-06-13 snapshot from
http://snapshot.ntop.org.


Prerequisites:

  1) MinGW      (available from http://www.mingw.org)
     This was tested against MinGW-1.1.tar.gz
     Note: I unzipped (use folder names) it in C:\Mingw

  2) GNU Make   (available from http://www.mingw.org)
     This was tested with GNU Make v3.79.1, (comes with MinGW-1.1)

  3) WinPCAP developer's pack (available from
     http://winpcap.polito.it/install/bin/WinPcap_2_3.zip
     This was tested with Release 2.3 of WinPcap 
     Note: I unzipped (use folder names) it in C:\Mingw
           and executed C:\Mingw\WPdpack\Drivers\WinPcap_2_3.exe

  4) gdbm for win32/mingw (from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep)
     This was tested with gdbm-1.8.0-20010430.zip
     Note: I unzipped (use folder names) it in C:\Mingw\gdbm

  5) ntop  (available from http://www.ntop.org)
     This was tested with http://snapshot.ntop.org/tgz/ntop-02-06-13.tgz
     Note: I unzipped (use folder names) in C:\ntop-02-06-13

  6) UnxUtils package UnxUtils.zip at:

     http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html
     Note : I unzipped  only patch.exe and rm.exe  to C:\mingw\bin
            rm.exe is required as defined in  ntop\makefile.mingw  to make ntop.
            Patch.exe is only required if diff files are available. 

Steps

  1) Install all prerequisites and
     Open Dos command box and CD to C:\ntop-02-06-1\ntop-current
     Add to PATH variable  C:\Mingw\bin\  
     path C:\MinGW\bin\;%path%
     ( don't forget the last backslash !)
  
  2) Edit the ntop/Makefile.mingw and fill in the following values:

     INC_GDBM        (where the gdbm header files can be found)
     INC_WPDPACK     (where the winpcap header files can be found)
     LIB_GDBM        (where libgdbm.a is found)
     LIB_WPDPACK     (where libwpcap.a os found )

        result :
        INC_GDBM=-Ic:/Mingw/gdbm/include
        INC_WPDPACK=-Ic:/Mingw/wpdpack/include
        
        LIB_GDBM=-Lc:/Mingw/gdbm/lib
        LIB_WPDPACK=-Lc:/Mingw/wpdpack/lib

     
  3) Build the sub-components (starting from the ntop-current directory)

     3a) Build zlib

         cd gdchart0.94c/zlib-1.1.4
         make -f Makefile.mingw
         cd ../..

     3b) Build libpng

         cd gdchart0.94c/gd-1.8.3/libpng-1.2.1
         make -f scripts/makefile.mingw
         cd ../../../

     3c) Build gd

         cd gdchart0.94c/gd-1.8.3
         make -f Makefile.mingw
         cd ../..


     3d) Build gdchart

         cd gdchart0.94c
         make -f Makefile.mingw
         cd ..
        
  4) Build ntop itself

     cd ntop

     make -f Makefile.mingw


  5) Package ntop and the dependent files

     Create directory e.g. C:\ntop , copy ntop.exe and the html
     subdirectory hierarchy.

     Ntop dependent files are libgdm-2.dll and wpcap.dll.

     Copy libgdbm-2.dll (exists in C:\Mingw\gdbm\bin) to C:\ntop
     ( wpcap.dll exists in C:\WINNT\system32 after install of WinPcap2_3.exe , so
       this dir is already in your PATH variable ) .

  6) Use it

     Execute ntop.exe from the install directory. 
     Run ntop in console :  ntop.exe /c  <options>
     Run ntop as a service : ntop.exe /i <options>

     You can get command line help by running ntop.exe -h

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