From: Nuralanur@...
Date: 2006-05-19T17:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: pcap library install on windows without c compiler

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unknown wrote:
> Does this help you ?
> 
>  _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcap_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcap)
>  
> Best regards,
> 
> Axel

>Not really I need to  use

>require 'pcaplet'


> but the ruby library for pcap  requires that you make...make install to 
>install it.   I don't  have access to a c compiler.

OK. The "./configure make..make install" installation process is  something 
coming from Unix/Linux that doesn't have anything comparable to it in
Windows, AFAIK. One convenient way to overcome that difficulty can be
to install Cygwin on your Windows system.  That's an attemp to  bring
Linux/Unix functionality to Windows.
Go to: 
 
_http://www.cygwin.com/_ (http://www.cygwin.com/) .

 
 
it should be sufficient that you download the setup.exe file from the
website, which guides you through some Windows-typical setup
process. If you have enough space on your computer, choose
everything there is , if you have a limited amount of space,
be sure to choose the developer tools, including the compiler 'gcc'
and 'make', as well as, of course, Ruby.
Then run the GUI installation. This will give you two icons on your
desktop, named "Cygwin" and "Cygwin XFree86". Click any of these.
This opens a console window.

To install a package from source under Linux/Unix/Cygwin, you  download
the package 
 
package-version1.2.3.tar.gz 
 
to your computer, and best move it (under Windows) to the directory
C:/cygwin/usr/local    .
 
Then, in the console, go to that directory:
 
cd /usr/local  <RETURN>    (in Linux, the main  path is named /, and  Cygwin 
puts it at C:/cygwin),
 
unpack and decompress it:
 
 
gunzip package-version1.2.3.tar.gz <RETURN>
 
tar xvf package-version1.2.3.tar  <RETURN>.
 
This creates a subdirectory for the software,
 
C:/cygwin/usr/local/package-version1.2.3,
 
now go there
 
cd package-version1.2.3 <RETURN>
 
and type in (notice the dot):
 
./configure  <RETURN>
make        <RETURN>
make install <RETURN>
 
The last three command allow it to set up the software on many  different
machines which have their specialties, and therefore, you'll get a  lot
of output and in between the make and the make install, you'll probably  have
time to drink some coffee.
It may also be necessary to set some properties for your particular
software, decorating any of these last three commands with nice  options.
You can find these things in a file INSTALL or README
that is in the C:/cygwin/usr/local/package-version1.2.3 directory.
 
 
Best regards,
 
Axel 
 
 

 

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