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   1 To build tcpdump under Windows, you need:
   2
   3 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later
   4 - the WinPcap or Npcap SDK, which includes libpcap for win32. The
   5   WinPcap SDK can be doneloaded from
   6
   7     https://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm
   8
   9   and the Npcap SDK can be downloaded from
  10
  11     https://nmap.org/npcap/
  12 - CMake, which can be downloadd from
  13
  14     https://cmake.org
  15
  16 First, make a build directory, either as a subdirectory of the tcpdump
  17 source directory or as a separate directory.
  18
  19 Second, change to the build directory, and run CMake with the following
  20 arguments:
  21
  22   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH={pathname of the WinPcap/Npcap SDK}
  23
  24   -G {generator}
  25
  26   the pathname of the tcpdump source directory relative to the build
  27   directory (".." if the build directory is a subdirectory of the
  28   tcpdump source directory).
  29
  30 "{generator}" would be the string "Visual Studio N YYYY", where "N" is
  31 the version of Visual Studio and "YYYY" is the year number for that
  32 version; if you are building a 64-bit version of tcpdump, YYYY must be
  33 followed by a space and "Win64".  For example, to build a 32-bit version
  34 of tcpdump with Visual Studio 2015, "{generator}" would be "Visual
  35 Studio 14 2015" and to build a 64-bit version of tcpdump with Visual
  36 Studio 2017, "{generator}" would be "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64".
  37
  38 Third, from the build directory, run the command
  39
  40   msbuild /m /nologo /p:Configuration={configuration} tcpdump.sln
  41
  42 where {configuration} can be "Release", "Debug", or "RelWithDebInfo", or
  43 build tcpdump from the Visual Studio application using the solution file
  44 in question.
  45
  46 (XXX - rules for building with MinGW should be added.)