Libpcap on Cygwin

Question

I recently installed Cygwin, and while trying to get Reaver onto it I got the following error: pcap library not found!. Although I think Cygwin is a terrifically useful tool, I'm still not used to not having a package manager, and am having trouble setting it up. Another question on stack overflow seems to indicate that I need WinPcap. I downloaded the file and installed as described by camino's answer. However, ./configure still returning the error. Is some modification of Reaver itself required? If not, what should I do? Thanks!

Answer 1

libpcap is not available on cygwin, for a obvious reason:

libpcap needs to work at system network interface level, while cygwin is only in user space. The old link you reported was in reality using a cygwin cross-compiler to build a mingw program.