added some notes about development to the README.md #789
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hoene
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Apr 22, 2025
- i just added my notes on how to compile the driver
- not all complete
- especially on how to support for Win32 driver remains a bit unclear
guyharris
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| ### Development Environment | ||
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| Install a Windows. For example, use Windows 11, version 21H2. |
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"Install a version of Windows."
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| Install a Windows. For example, use Windows 11, version 21H2. | ||
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| When you install Visual Studio 2022, select the Desktop development with C++ workload, then under Individual Components add: |
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"Install Visual Studio 2022" should explicitly be stated as a step, for example:
Install Visual Studio 2022. When you do so, select the Desktop development with C++ workload, then under Individual Components add:
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| You also need WDK for Windows 11, version 21H2. Download and install it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2166289 | ||
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| For addition tasks, like building the documentation, you need roffit. Clone it from |
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| Then, download https://npcap.com/dist/ npcap-sdk and install it under, e.g. %USERPROFILE%\npcap-sdk-1.14 | ||
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| We need Winflex, which can be download at https://github.com/lexxmark/winflexbison/releases . Be sure that it is in environment variable 'Path'. |
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It's called WinFlexBison, and you need both Flex and Bison to compile libpcap's filter parser.
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| You might also need pkg-config from https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip | ||
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| #### Cloing the reposiory |
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"Cloning the repository".
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