Re^3: Net::Pcap installation help (and not with the library)

[VinsWorldcom]

You will get some test failures - I don't remember quite that many. But proceed with the process and create and run the test script in the install directory. Run it with 'perl -Mblib test.pl' from the install directory. If that runs fine, then do the 'dmake install'.

[taapm]

Thanks for the prompt reply. Here's what happens when I try to run the test script:

D:\strawberry\Net-Pcap-0.17>perl -Mblib test.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::pcap_findalldevs called at test.pl line 3

[VinsWorldcom]

I don't know if it matters, but I have different versions:

Win7 x64

Strawberry Perl 5.16.1

Net::Pcap = 0.16

WinPcap = 4.1.2

The patches mentioned were written against Net::Pcap 0.16, not sure how the update to 0.17 will effect them?

Also, not sure how using WinPcap 4.1.3 with the headers / libraries (WpdPack) for 4.1.2 will effect compile and run?

UPDATE: The patches definitely don't work by just running 'patch' on the Net::Pcap 0.17 version as the Makefile.PL has some additional lines throwing off the patch files. However, looking at the patches and manually adding them worked fine for me.

I did get a compilation error at first about "undefined reference to `pcap_..." but that was resolved by simply recreating the x64 libraries according to step 4 of the process above.

The test.pl file also didn't work - gave an "Undefined subroutine &main::pcap_findalldevs called at test.pl line 3". It seems the 0.17 version of Net::Pcap handles the ':functions' export tag differently. This is resolved with a new test.pl as follows:

use Net::Pcap;

@devs = Net::Pcap::pcap_findalldevs(\%devinfo, \$err);
for my $dev (@devs) {
    print "$dev : $devinfo{$dev}\n"
}

[taapm]

Thanks VERY much, Vin, for your help! In addition to your modified test.pl, for the benefit of others here are the minor patches to apply to Net-Pcap-0.17 to get it to compile correctly. Strangely, I did not have to redo step 4 like you had to.

Apply these patches with the same command line option '-p1' as in Vin's original post:

patch -p1 < net-pcap-0.17-makefile.patch
patch -p1 < net-pcap-0.17-stubs.patch

Here is net-pcap-0.17-makefile.patch:

--- a/Makefile.PL    Wed Apr 24 21:16:02 2013
+++ b/Makefile.PL    Fri Apr 26 23:00:40 2013
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
     $has_Win32 = !$@;
     $is_Win32 = ($^O eq 'MSWin32');
     if ($is_Win32) {
-        $DEVNULL = 'DEVNULL';
+        $DEVNULL = 'NUL:';
     } else {
         $DEVNULL = eval { File::Spec->devnull };
         if ($@) { $DEVNULL = '/dev/null' }

And net-pcap-0.17-stubs.patch:

--- a/stubs.inc    Sun Oct 15 15:00:58 2006
+++ b/stubs.inc    Fri Apr 26 23:09:52 2013
@@ -516,10 +516,13 @@
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #pragma message( "Warning: the function pcap_setsampling() is not ava
+ilable" )
 #endif
+
+#ifndef HAVE_REMOTE
 struct pcap_samp {
     int method;
     int value;
 };
+#endif
 
 struct pcap_samp *pcap_setsampling(pcap_t *p);
 struct pcap_samp *pcap_setsampling(pcap_t *p) {