The weird thing is that the original libpcap used by Npcap/WinPcap also exported eproto_db, but the build of WinDump doesn't complain that link error. I don't know what the difference is here?
Error 646 error LNK1194: cannot delay-load 'wpcap.dll' due to import of data symbol '__imp_eproto_db'; link without /DELAYLOAD:wpcap.dll Cheers, Yang On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Yang Luo <hslu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > Because of libpcap has exported the a data structure called eproto_db ( > https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/master/nametoaddr.c#L320), > when I compiled WinDump in MSVC specifying "wpcap.dll" as a delay loaded > DLL, I encountered the link error 1194. The cause is here: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w59k653y%28v=vs.80%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 > . > > Delay loading wpcap.dll is an important part for the switch between Npcap > mode and WinPcap mode. And from the comment, it seems that exporting this > data is not very critical. So can we remove the "PCAP_API_DEF" at the line > beginning to disable the exporting? > > > Cheers, > Yang > > _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
