On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:32 PM, Ali Abdulkadir <autostart....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope. Although it wouldn't be super helpful if they were to remove/update the > ANSI compiler test. That would make libpcap at least *compile* on windows > with the autotools. I think tcpdump's configure script removed that test at > some point. There isn't an "ANSI compiler test". Currently, libpcap *and* tcpdump use the standard autoconf macro AC_PROG_CC_C99, which checks for flags necessary to implement C99 features. We require a subset of C99 features to be available in the compiler, so we *can't* remove that. (Yes, that means older versions of MSVC aren't guaranteed to be able to compile libpcap and can't compile tcpdump. We're not going to change that.) > Linking (shared) is currently not possible though. Fixing that is more > complicated as libpcap's Makefiles are mostly handcrafted (don't use e.g. > automake which would handle OS specific things such as the setting proper > file extensions). Can automake be used with non-GPLed software? (libtool has its own idea of how to name shared library files, so we'd have to work around that "feature" in a platform-dependent fashion, were we to use it.) _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
