Hi, 
Are you sure that you are linking against wpcap.lib ?

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:45:11 -0600
Mario Hollibaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am trying to develop a compact, customized-to-my-purposes packet 
> sniffer using VC++ v6.0.  It was recommended to me that instead of 
> writing a program using hardware interfacing and working directly with 
> interrupts, to take a look at and use the WinPCap library.  Normally I 
> can hack my way through things with computers, but right now I am so 
> frustrated I could cry.
> 
> <>When I look at the documentation (and believe me, I have spent nearly 
> 15 hours reading through the docs trying to help myself out) I notice 2 
> things:  1) documentation entitled "WinPcap tutorial: a step by step 
> guide to program WinPcap", and 2) WinPcap internals" under which are 
> "NPf driver internals manual" and "Packet Driver API developer's 
> manual".  Through no amount of reading, or posting in my usual 
> newsgroups, have I been able to determine which section pertains to me.  
> Do I want to know how to "program WinPcap", or do I want to use the 
> "Packet Driver API's"? <> 
> 
> Furthermore, I can't "build the NPF driver" like it talks about in one 
> of the read-me's that came with my download for WinPcap source v 3.0, 
> because I don't have a DDK (driver development kit).  Do I need to be 
> able to compile that in order to use the WinPcap library?  Or do I only 
> need to take the precompiled library that comes with the download, put 
> it in the included libraries, and also make sure I get all the .h and .c 
> files that came with the source into an included path? <> 
> 
> Moving on, when I tried to read the "WinPcap tutorial: a step by step 
> guide to program WinPcap" there are many sample programs.  It seems to 
> me like the obvious thing to do is to compile/build/run these porgrams, 
> then read over the analysis provided in the tutorials.  However (and 
> this has been MOST frustrating so far) EVERY program that I try to 
> compile give me "unresolved external symbols" errors when linking.  This 
> error basically means "you have a data member or a function that is 
> defined in one of your header files, but it's never implemented anywhere 
> in a corresponding .c or .lib file.  How can this be?  I'll give a 
> concrete example: <> 
> 
> The very first sample program in the tutorial is "Obtaining the Device 
> List".  When I cut and paste the code into VC++ 6.0, at link-time I get 
> the following error: <> 
> 
> Linking...
> main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _pcap_freealldevs
> main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _pcap_findalldevs
> Debug/blah.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
> Error executing link.exe. <> 
> 
> So I go and look up pcap_freealldevs in the online documentation.  The 
> documentation tells me that pcap_freealldevs is defined in pcap.h, and 
> is implemented in inet.c.  I check my include and source directories in 
> my VC++ options, and the directories containing the files pcap.h and 
> inet.c are both listed.  So why am I getting an unresolved external 
> symbol error?  Why is VC++ not seeing the functions pcap_freealldevs and 
> pcap_findalldevs in inet.c, like it should? <> 
> 
> I'm sorry this is such a long post, but I am ready to pull my hair out.  
> I am simply floored right now... any help in any form whatsoever is 
> going to be much appreciated, thanks. <> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario


Flamur Rogova



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