• maarten van damme (7/7) Feb 29 2012 hello,
• David (5/12) Feb 29 2012 Hello,
• maarten van damme (2/2) Feb 29 2012 I've tried porting libcap once but I failed miserably. If I'd succeed in
• James Miller (17/19) Feb 29 2012 Not porting, writing bindings for it. Its pretty easy. just convert
• maarten van damme (4/4) Feb 29 2012 thank you, I'll give it a try.
• maarten van damme (9/9) Mar 04 2012 I have created some bindings. I'm pretty sure they're not really good (I
• maarten van damme (1/1) Mar 04 2012 and why on earth is timeval declared in std.socket instead of std.time?
• maarten van damme (3/3) Mar 04 2012 I started testing my bindings a bit and when using this program
• Jonathan M Davis (5/6) Mar 04 2012 std.socket is an old module and predates all of Phobos' current time stu...
• maarten van damme (9/16) Mar 04 2012 that was a bit confusing, the casting part from me with timeval was wron...
• maarten van damme (2/2) Mar 04 2012 Thank you, now only have to understand the access violation error.
• maarten van damme (4/4) Mar 05 2012 hehe, had to make my callback function extern(C). Can circumvent this or...
• maarten van damme (4/4) Mar 05 2012 If anyone wants to help with my bindings (maybe they'll ever make it int...

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

hello,
I want to use raw sockets but there is a lack of documentation on how to
use them in D.
Is there somewhere I can read more about them or has someone succesfully
used them?

Thank you,
maarten

David <d dav1d.de> writes:

Am 29.02.2012 20:44, schrieb maarten van damme:
 hello,
 I want to use raw sockets but there is a lack of documentation on how to
 use them in D.
 Is there somewhere I can read more about them or has someone succesfully
 used them?

 Thank you,
 maarten

Hello,

I would use libpcap for that, since this is C you can interface it from 
D. Bu there are no bindings for it yet, you would have to make them 
first (you can submit them to https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos ).

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

I've tried porting libcap once but I failed miserably. If I'd succeed in
porting they wouldn't be of good quality.

James Miller <james aatch.net> writes:

On 1 March 2012 10:05, maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> wrote:
 I've tried porting libcap once but I failed miserably. If I'd succeed in
 porting they wouldn't be of good quality.

Not porting, writing bindings for it. Its pretty easy. just convert
the declarations into D extern (C) { declarations.
By the looks of it, you'll want to do bindings for
https://github.com/mcr/libpcap/blob/master/pcap/pcap.h and possibly
https://github.com/mcr/libpcap/blob/master/pcap/bpf.h.

The man page here, http://www.tcpdump.org/pcap3_man.html can also give
you a good starting point, and you could just write the bindings
straight from that if you want.

There is documentation to help people write C bindings here:
http://dlang.org/interfaceToC.html

Also if you submit it to Deimos, and if it happens to be a little
rough-around-the-edges or incomplete, somebody else can fill in the
gaps. Obviously you need to do a reasonable job, but it is only
writing function prototypes, so there's not much that can go wrong.

--
James Miller

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

thank you, I'll give it a try.
One of my previous attempts failed because I didn't know what was really
needed to include in the bindings and what was excess. I'm going to post
what I have in a week, hope it works out.

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

I have created some bindings. I'm pretty sure they're not really good (I
didn't port micros and certain other files) but if I have time I'm going to
post them on github.
A pretty annoying problem is that I have to use toStringz and that I can't
write C strings with std.stdio (have to use std.c.stdio). is there a way
around that?
anyway, here are the bindings
http://pastebin.com/MpGtxMi0
http://pastebin.com/RMRxb3FZ

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

and why on earth is timeval declared in std.socket instead of std.time?

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

I started testing my bindings a bit and when using this program
http://pastebin.com/3j0YzeAm
I get an access violation after the callback has returned...

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Sunday, March 04, 2012 18:10:57 maarten van damme wrote:
 and why on earth is timeval declared in std.socket instead of std.time?

std.socket is an old module and predates all of Phobos' current time stuff. It 
should probably use a core.time.Duration, but it hasn't been changed to do 
that.

- Jonathan M Davis

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

2012/3/4 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com>

 On Sunday, March 04, 2012 18:10:57 maarten van damme wrote:
 and why on earth is timeval declared in std.socket instead of std.time?

 std.socket is an old module and predates all of Phobos' current time
 stuff. It
 should probably use a core.time.Duration, but it hasn't been changed to do
 that.

 - Jonathan M Davis

that was a bit confusing, the casting part from me with timeval was wrong
anyway.
Does anyone has any ideas on
-how I got that access violation without changing a thing in my callback
-how to track it down
-how to convert c strings to d strings
-how to avoid having to call tostringz all the time

thank you :)

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

Thank you, now only have to understand the access violation error.
I didn't knew to!targettype was so powerful.

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

hehe, had to make my callback function extern(C). Can circumvent this or do
I have to keep using extern(C) callback functions?
is there somebody willing to D'ify my bindings? or how should I go about
doing that myself?

maarten van damme <maartenvd1994 gmail.com> writes:

If anyone wants to help with my bindings (maybe they'll ever make it into
deimos) You can check them out here:
https://github.com/maartenvd/d-libcap-bindings any help/suggestions are
welcome.