Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] libpcap library usage

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Faraz Shamim wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to use libpcap with wireshark. I have
> compiled libpcap with a special API and it went OK. I
> have libpcap in /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a and it is
> included in my lib path in my .cshrc
>
> setenv LDFLAGS "-L/usr/local/lib"
>
> but when I run configure why it says at the end that 
>
>  Use libcap library : no
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.

Try:

./configure --with-pcap=/usr/local

(You also need to put the libpcap header files in /usr/local for that to 
work...)