Thanks Gary - guess I'll have to wait until they create a package for 64
bit windows :(
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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: 16 May 2005 19:35
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] 64 bit machines
Caroline Henderson wrote:
> Hi there, can Ethereal be used on 64 bit Window machines?
I don't know whether anybody's tested it.
It works on 64-bit UN*X machines, but 64-bit UN*X machines tend to be
LP64 machines, with 64-bit "long"s, so *if* there are any places in
Ethereal (or any of the libraries on which it depends) where a pointer
is put into a "long" and expected to survive the experience, it'd work
on LP64 UN*X machines, but not on LLP64 64-bit Windows machines, as a
"long" is, as I understand it, 32 bits in 64-bit Windows.
In addition, I don't know whether WinPcap works on 64-bit Windows.
Binary packages for 64-bit Windows don't exist for Ethereal or for
WinPcap, so, even if they *do* work, people will have to compile WinPcap
and Ethereal themselves.
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