To build tcpdump under Windows, you need:

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later
- the WinPcap or Npcap SDK, which includes libpcap for win32. The
  WinPcap SDK can be doneloaded from

    https://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm

  and the Npcap SDK can be downloaded from

    https://nmap.org/npcap/
- CMake, which can be downloadd from

    https://cmake.org

First, make a build directory, either as a subdirectory of the tcpdump
source directory or as a separate directory.

Second, change to the build directory, and run CMake with the following
arguments:

  -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH={pathname of the WinPcap/Npcap SDK}

  -G {generator}

  the pathname of the tcpdump source directory relative to the build
  directory (".." if the build directory is a subdirectory of the
  tcpdump source directory).

"{generator}" would be the string "Visual Studio N YYYY", where "N" is
the version of Visual Studio and "YYYY" is the year number for that
version; if you are building a 64-bit version of tcpdump, YYYY must be
followed by a space and "Win64".  For example, to build a 32-bit version
of tcpdump with Visual Studio 2015, "{generator}" would be "Visual
Studio 14 2015" and to build a 64-bit version of tcpdump with Visual
Studio 2017, "{generator}" would be "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64".

Third, from the build directory, run the command

  msbuild /m /nologo /p:Configuration={configuration} tcpdump.sln

where {configuration} can be "Release", "Debug", or "RelWithDebInfo", or
build tcpdump from the Visual Studio application using the solution file
in question.

(XXX - rules for building with MinGW should be added.)