On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> You'll need to compile without libz, as libz is (optionally?) used to
> work with capture files and it will by default use 32 bit file offsets
> on machines which uses 32 bits for long values. So you can compile
> Wireshark/Tshark without libz (configure option?) or use a 64 bit
> machine that uses 64bits for "long" integers.
Would it be worth the effort to put some code in that would use the zlib
reading and writing functions for uncompressed/compressed use < 2GB vs.
normal reading and writing functions for non-compressed files of any
size based on a user preference?
> However, I don't know the configure settings for this as I'm working
> on Win32 most of the time.
--without-zlib :)
Steve