[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] net/pcap: build on Windows
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Apr 9 12:51:50 CEST 2021
On 3/24/2021 12:50 AM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> NOTE: dependency patches are requirements, CI may fail.
>
> Most modern and actively maintained distribution of libpcap for Windows
> is Npcap [1]. It currently doesn't provide a pkg-config file [2].
> By default it is installed to C:\Program Files\Npcap and can be located
> using standard environment variables [3]:
>
> $env:C_INCLUDE_PATH += ";C:\Program Files\Npcap"
> $env:LIBRARY_PATH += ";C:\Program Files\Npcap\Lib\x64" # MinGW
> $env:LINK += ' /LIBPATH:"C:\Program Files\Npcap\Lib\x64"' # Clang
>
> The following libpcap.pc also works if placed in PKG_CONFIG_PATH:
>
> prefix="C:/Program Files/Npcap"
> Name: libpcap
> Version: 1.10
> Description: Platform-independent network traffic capture library
> Cflags: -I${prefix}/Include
> Libs: -L${prefix}/Lib/x64 -lwpcap
>
> Example of collecting packets from an interface to a file:
>
> .\build\examples\dpdk-skeleton.exe `
> --vdev "eth_pcap0,iface=\Device\NPF_{DDD48985-A77C-4FC9-AF48-61E547C8797E}" `
> --vdev "eth_pcap1,tx_pcap=capture.pcap"
>
> Interface name can be obtained as follows, with Wireshark installed:
>
> & "C:\Program Files\Wireshark\tshark.exe" -D
>
> Implementation in "pcap_osdep_windows.c" does some guesswork to convert
> between variants of an interface name. Microsoft experts and interested
> users, please take a look and/or give it a try in your environment.
>
> [1]: https://nmap.org/npcap
> [2]: https://github.com/nmap/npcap/issues/299
> [3]: https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#compiler-object
>
> Depends-on: series-15801 ("eal/windows: do not expose POSIX symbols")
> Depends-on: patch-89639 ("[v2,3/3] meson: remove unnecessary explicit link to libpcap")
>
Hi Dmitry,
What is the status of the dependent patches, are they merged?
> v3:
> * Use environment and pkg-config to locate libpcap (Bruce).
> * Use C11 timespec_get() instead of EAL wrapper.
> * Drop libpcap wrappers in net/pcap (Ferruh).
>
> Dmitry Kozlyuk (3):
> eal/windows: add timespec_get shim for MinGW
> net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files
> net/pcap: build on Windows
>
> config/meson.build | 3 +-
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 4 +
> drivers/net/pcap/meson.build | 16 +--
> .../pcap/{rte_eth_pcap.c => pcap_ethdev.c} | 109 +++-------------
> drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep.h | 18 +++
> drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_freebsd.c | 59 +++++++++
> drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_linux.c | 42 +++++++
> drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_windows.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../windows/include/rte_os_internal.h | 32 +++++
> 9 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)
> rename drivers/net/pcap/{rte_eth_pcap.c => pcap_ethdev.c} (95%)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_freebsd.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_linux.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_osdep_windows.c
>
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