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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get "Malformed Packet" for 802.11 Beacon frames on Windows

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:39:54 -0700
On Apr 13, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Gianluca Varenni <Gianluca.Varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> 
> Please unicast me and I can give you some hints on how wpcap.dll is compiled on Windows. Shortly, we take the libpcap sources and apply a pretty substantial patch on it to compile on Windows.

How much of that patch is still needed with the tip-of-master-branch version of libpcap?  A significant number of changes have been committed to fix building on Windows.