Brian Ford wrote: > > The problem with all this is that the winpcap DLLs are compiled with > > Mingw and depend on msvcrt, so if you want to use them with Cygwin apps > > you have to recompile them to use cygwin1.dll. If you don't do this, > > the libpcap application (Net::Pcap in this case) will compile but fail > > to run correctly. > > Just curious what this really means. I use the winpcap DLLs daily in a > Cygwin appliction (custom, not Perl) without incident. Am I just lucky?
I'm not entirely sure either. :-) I too have "fudged it" and gotten some apps to work, but with strage behavior sometimes. Run cygcheck on the app and see if it's loading both cygwin1.dll and msvcr*.dll, if so then it's luck. I think it mostly tends to work because the winpcap stuff doesn't call the C runtime for much. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
