Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] configure fails on solaris

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

atdev.queries@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi ,
>  
> I'm trying to build wireshark using the source 0.99.5 on my solaris system.
> But when I give ./configure --prefix=[exe directory path] , I'm getting 
> an error as :
>  
> configure: error: Header file pcap.h not found; if you installed libpcap 
> from source, did you also do "make  
> install-incl", and if you installed a binary package of libpcap, is 
> there also a developer's package of   
> libpcap,and did you also install that package?
>  
> Could anyone please let me know how to rectify this error .

Well [as the error indicates], do you have "pcap.h" installed?  If you 
do, is it in an unusual location (in which case you could do 
"--with-pcap=/your/unusual/pcap/location")?